{"id":859346,"date":"2026-04-07T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:02:17","slug":"syracuse-football-calvin-russells-expected-to-play-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/859346\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse football: Calvin Russell\u2019s expected to play in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Syracuse Orange football squad will finish spring practice this week, and while we won\u2019t see top recruit Calvin Russell in Saturday\u2019s spring game, he might not be out as long as everyone anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last week after practice, Fran Brown followed up on this report and shared that Russell\u2019s expected to return to the Orange sometime in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It might seem like wishful thinking, but when you think about Russell\u2019s trajectory as a player, it doesn\u2019t make sense not to play him once he\u2019s cleared to return. If he\u2019s as good as advertised, he\u2019s not going to be a four or five year player so you\u2019re not \u201cwasting\u201d a year if he can come back and help the Orange return to a bowl game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If Russell\u2019s return is delayed until later in November, then you can utilize the redshirt opportunity that comes with football\u2019s rules. Certainly it\u2019s too early to know if Russell will truly be ready to go in October, but he came to Syracuse to make an impact and if Fran Brown wants to keep him motivated through a difficult rehab, it\u2019s not something fans should worry too much about right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syracuse Orange football squad will finish spring practice this week, and while we won\u2019t see top recruit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,8651],"class_list":{"0":"post-859346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-syracuse-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116364505548409245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}