Soooooo close until we can say “Only one month until football!”
#32, Bryce Cleave, RsSo, Safety
Stats
Height: 6’0″
Weight: 190 lbs
High school: Peninsula, HS (Gig Harbor, WA)
How’d he get to The Blue™?
Mr. Cleave had some interest in other schools. Looking at his 247Sports profile, his only offer was Carroll College. Not a whole lot else to include, I’m afraid.
While in high school Bryce played football as a safety and a wide receiver. As a multi-sport athlete, he also played baseball.
Nickname
“Hatchet”
Not an homage to Gary Paulsen, per se, but what do hatchets do? That’s right. They cleave things!
Look-alike
In the right light and from the correct angle, a little Boyd Holbrook…kind of. Maybe.
Career Highlights
None to speak of yet at the college level, but you can relive his high school highlights here. He did play in one game last year and had one tackle vs Utah State.
2023 Prospectus
Defensive backs are notorious for rotating a lot and you can basically never have too many of them. While Boise State has a lot of safety depth at the moment, that can also change in a moment. As things stand currently, I would imagine he gets some playing time this year again on special teams and as a reserve, while building up his experience for potentially more involved reps in seasons to come.
Is he on Twitter?
Yes, and seemingly quite happy to be a Bronco!
Completely made up fact
Bryce has never actually heard of the American classic novel, “Hatchet“, but even if he had, it wouldn’t matter. He only has eyes for “My Side of The Mountain“.
Beav(er) Cleav(er) The Beave.
Rough weekend or is Hogan and Crowe no longer on the roster??? #34 to #32
Yeah, heads need to roll or somebody’s check should be altered.
Hopefully not I think Crowe is underrated.
Tyler Crowe and Cortez Hogans are both still on the roster! Cortez will be profiled on day #20. Crowe’s article got missed because the person that had taken on the assignment had some unforeseen life circumstances crop up and wasn’t able to get it done that day. All our writers are volunteers, after all. We will add his Countdown article to another day that’s currently missing another player’s jersey number to assign it to or do a two-fer one of these days. In the meantime, apologies for inducing a heart attack!
Come on, man, everybody knows you guys on First Kick are rolling in the dough.