A new era of Weber State football has arrived. Nine months from his hire, Eric Kjar finally leads his team onto the gridiron for a game as Weber State opens the 2026 season Friday in a road matchup against Northern Colorado. The Wildcats have 80 new players and a coaching staff almost ...
OGDEN — It's been 12 years since Jay Hill came to Ogden and brought the Kyle Whittingham 4-3 defense to Weber State football. The Wildcats gave up 41.4 points per game in 2013, the year before Hill arrived. It took a few years but, by 2017, WSU's defense allowed 17.6 points per game. It ...
Weber State football's first depth chart of the season is official. The Wildcats head to Northern Colorado for a Friday kickoff with 80 new players, WSU says, and two of them will lead the quarterback group. Fifth-year player Devin Brown is WSU's starting quarterback, as expected, after ...
The 2026 season marks the first in FCS after the subdivision voted to adopt a 12-game schedule every year (not just based on when the calendar provided the right framework to add a game). So for Weber State and everyone else, that means August season openers will be standard as FCS schools ...
It may not be a foreign concept to at least some followers of college football in the state of Utah, but one change under Eric Kjar's control of the Weber State program is the implementation of a leadership council to help guide the Wildcats. WSU will still have captains, which Kjar said will ...
OGDEN — If you spend enough time around sports, you'll come to understand the things most coaches say often sound the same, whether a team is winning or losing. Culture is something every coach in the country talks about, from preps on up. A true positive culture can become far more than a ...
