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Roster, Depth Chart
Bold = listed starter(s)
Italics = Incoming player.
Listed on preseason depth chart (X)
#81 Nick Devereaux — Fifth-year transfer from Davenport (D2, 2021). Last year: Third Team All-MAC.
#86 Dalin Wilkins — Third-year signee.
#84 JT Beasley (Northeast Mississippi C.C.) — Incoming transfer (2024-25).
Listed on preseason depth chart (Z)
#11 Antonio Floyd — Third-year signee. Last year: 3 games.
#85 Kozy Isaac — Second-year signee.
Listed on preseason depth chart (H)
#5 Harold Mack Second-year signee. Last year: 4 starts.
#3 Benson Prosper — Second-year Hutchinson C.C. transfer. Also played at Highland C.C. (2023). Last year: 2 starts.
Also on roster:
#18 Mekhi Fox — Second-year transfer from Pasadena City College. Also played at Colorado State (2022-23). Last year: 1 game.
#25 Quinn Fracassi (Valparaiso, FCS) — Incoming transfer. Returns to EMU (2022-24).
#80 Shawn Fishwick — Freshman.
#82 Nate Lyman — Second-year signee.
#83 Bacori Minner — Freshman.
#87 CJ Miller — Freshman.
#89 Carl Jean-Bart — Freshman.
Eventually, breakout seasons
If you’re Eastern Michigan, why wouldn’t you look at this wide receiver group and think it’s a decent room of up-and-comers?
Nick Devereaux, an in-state recruit who developed at Eastern for three years after he transferred over from D2-level Davenport (with, at the time, tight end convert Blake Daniels), made 10 starts last year and grew into a capable pair of hands as an outside receiver. Devereaux became more of a priority in the Eastern offense with eight targets through the team’s initial 0-3 start to the season, then had five catches on seven targets in the team’s first win of the season against Louisiana.
In that game, he ended with 76 receiving yards, which he’d top twice. Against Ohio, Devereaux had a career-best 121 yards on five catches (seven targets, 2 touchdowns), then another 79 yards on four grabs (eight looks, 1 TD) against Bowling Green. All three of those games came at home.
A placement on the Third Team All-MAC list was a fine way to end a season for somebody who was 11th in the league in receiving yards (510), 19th in total receptions (510), and tied for fourth in touchdowns (7). By PFF’s numbers, Devereaux had a reception percentage of 60.3%, contested catch rate of 42.9% (6 for 14), and three total drops. Fine marks, but how much improvement could be seen from him in 2026?
If there’s one category I’m looking at for Devereaux to take a step-up, it’s getting yards after the catch. Devereaux was fourth on the team last year in total YAC (104) behind three non-wideouts. Running back Dontae McMillan was far and away EMU’s leader at 390 total YAC, followed by tight end Joshua Long (151), then RB Tavierre Dunlap.
Harold Mack and Benson Prosper also return with their own types of breakout seasons last year.
Mack, as a true freshman, didn’t see a pass until Week 8 at Miami when he caught six balls for 179 yards with two touchdowns — the team’s best single-game receiving performance since 2021 when Hassan Beydoun had 197 yards at Toledo. He had three catches in each of the next three games, then five grabs (10 targets) in the regular season finale vs. Western Michigan (64 yards).
Prosper, a junior college transfer, was used more in the first-half of 2025 than he was in the second-half. In the first six games of the year, he had 15 catches on 17 targets. In the final six games, Prosper had six grabs on eight opportunities.
Terry Lockett Jr., sidelined with injury halfway through the year, wasn’t able to become the hands leader that was wished for after he earned Third Team All-MAC honors in 2024. Lockett’s gone, as is Jamarien Wheeler, the only other Eastern receiver to finish with triple-digit YAC yards in 2025 (102).
EMU did not fish for much help through the transfer portal in the offseason. EMU did grab two transfers, including Quinn Fracassci, who returns after spending the 2025 season at Valparaiso (FCS). The one truly new transfer, J.T. Beasley, has the biggest body in the receiver room (6’3”, 200 lbs.) and had 737 receiving yards in his 16 games played in the junior college ranks (41 receptions, 6 TD).
Also on the initial depth chart: Antonio Floyd is a listed starter through the preseason with just one career catch made, and Kozy Isaac and Dalin Wilkins are both listed as initial backups.
Sprinkle in four freshman signees to get their college careers started, and this wide receiver room feels a little bit old school. Outside of Devereaux (who, again, is in his fifth year at EMU), Prosper and the incoming Beasley, all of these receivers are guys EMU signed out of high school. Retention isn’t a football skill, but in the age of the transfer portal, seeing an overwhelming amount of guys within a position room like this stick around from one year to the next feels somewhat comforting.
Relaxing as it may be to know the names of the receivers, improved production is a much better feeling to chase in 2026. And, lucky for them, there won’t be any guessing games as to who’s going to start the year at quarterback. Now, for the receivers, this year is going to be about building on the tracks that they themselves laid last year.
