2020 Football Roster
Roster
Mike Palmer
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Position:
- Defensive Back
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 195
- Hometown:
- Endwell, N.Y.
- High School:
- Maine Endwell HS
 2020 (REDSHIRT SENIOR): Played in seven games before suffering a season-ending leg injury ... started four games at free safety and ended the season with 25 tackles … three solo tackles and half a sack against Duke (9/19) ... three solos tackles against Texas State and returned an interception 70 yards against Texas State (9/26) ... four solo tackles against North Carolina (10/3) … four solo tackles against Virginia Tech (10/17).
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2019 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR): Started in all 11 games played and was third on the team with 76 tackles ... contributed 4.5 TFLs and a sack with two interceptions and three PBUs ... nine tackles in first career start at free safety vs. Virginia Tech (8/31) with 0.5 TFL ... team-high seven tackles vs. Richmond (9/7) ... tallied seven tackles, including 0.5 TFLs, vs. Kansas (9/13) ... intercepted a pass and made eight tackles at Rutgers (9/21) ... picked off a pass vs. Wake Forest (9/28) to go with eight tackles and a PBU ... contributed eight solo tackles at Louisville (10/5) ... broke up two passes and made seven tackles, including one TFL, vs. NC State (10/19) … seven tackles at Clemson (10/26) … returned to the lineup to make four tackles at Pittsburgh (11/30) ... blocked a field goal that was returned for a touchdown and added eight tackles, including seven solo, in the Birmingham Bowl vs. Cincinnati (1/2).
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2018 (REDSHIRT SOPHOMORE): Played in 10 games at safety ... 23 tackles and two pass breakups on the season ... made two tackles against Temple (9/29) ... posted a career-high 10 tackles, broke up a pass and blocked a punt that was recovered for a touchdown at No. 23 NC State (10/6) ... totaled six tackles with a pass breakup vs. No. 25 Miami (10/26) ... credited with three solo tackles vs. No. 19 Syracuse (11/24).
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2017 (REDSHIRT FRESHMAN): Appeared in three games … totaled three solo tackles … two stops in the 41-10 win at Virginia (10/21).
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2016 (FRESHMAN): Redshirted the season.
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HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year starter and senior captain for head coach Matt Gallagher … named to the USA Today All-USA New York first team … also named the 2015 Athlete of the Year by the Press & Sun-Bulletin … two-time New York State Sports Writers Association First Team All-State honoree and two-time Elite 24 selection … in three seasons as a starter, intercepted 22 passes and returned four for touchdowns; also served as the No. 1 receiver … rated the eighth-best player in New York by Rivals.com … played a role during Spartans’ state-record 62-game win streak … Maine Endwell went 37-1 during his three years, including winning Class A state title in 2013 and 2014 … earned Offensive MVP accolades in the 2015 Ernie Davis Senior Classic … also played basketball and ran track … won the pentathlon at the state track and field championship … honor roll student.
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PERSONAL: Michael Thomas Palmer … graduated with a degree in communication from the Carroll School of Management … enrolled in the Woods College of Advancing Studies … son of Gary Palmer and Bev Battaglini … has a sister Hannah, step-siblings, Nick and Olivia, and half-brothers, Zac and Kenna ... recipient of the Jay McGillis '93 Memorial Scholarship Fund.
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