Buffs add preferred walk-on to 2012 roster
Chris O’Donnell (1988-91),
Greg Pace (2002-05),
Justin Drescher (2006-09) … names etched in the Colorado record books.
Names don’t ring a bell?
These three players are the only three players in CU history to hold down the thankless job of long snapper for all four years of their CU career.
Now
Trevor Carver has signed on to the Buff roster to try and join that list.
According to the
Daily Camera… Trevor Carver, from Monarch (Co.) high, will play long-snapper as a preferred walk-on this fall.
The 6-foot, 180-pound Carver, whose father Scott played tight end at Michigan State, had been sitting on a similar offer from the Utah Utes for about a month before getting word from CU coaches that they would have a spot for him.
“I just felt a little more comfortable (at Colorado),” Trevor Carver said Friday. “I’m very excited.”
Carver said he had opportunities to play cornerback at a couple of Division-III schools in California, but had long ago set his heart on playing Division-I football. And long-snapping, which he learned from his father in pee-wee football, ended up being his ticket.
For Carver to join O’Donnell, Pace, and Drescher in the record books, he’ll have some work to do. The returning starter at long-snapper for CU is junior
Ryan Iverson, who has already started for two seasons, and is halfway to joining an elite – if underappreciated – list of four-year starters at Colorado.