11 days to WCU Football Kickoff - #11 Rogan Wells

Welcome to the eleventh annual Catamount Football "100 days to Football Kickoff Countdown".

During the countdown, we'll highlight the player whose number corresponds to that day in the countdown. To help pass those long summer days, and hopefully get the Catamount faithful more excited about the upcoming season, and knowledgeable of the team members, we'll continue the football countdown each day until kickoff Saturday.

Since the official 2021 Catamount Football Roster has not yet been published, we'll use the 2021 Catamount Football Preseason Roster for jersey numbers until the new roster is posted, at which point we'll switch to the official roster for the remainder of the countdown.

It's now 11 days until the kickoff of Catamount football on Saturday, September 4th, 2021, against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels, in E.J. Whitmire Stadium / Bob Waters Field, Cullowhee, NC.

Today we will highlight a quarterback:

#11 Rogan Wells

POSITION Quarterback
HEIGHT 6-4
WEIGHT 220
CLASS Graduate Student
HOMETOWN Fort Mill, S.C.
HIGH SCHOOL Fort Mill HS









Prior to Western Carolina: Transferred to WCU in the summer of 2021 from Tusculum through the transfer portal as a graduate student … Began his collegiate career at Valdosta State;

BIO IN BRIEF – 

Tusculum: Guided the Pioneers to the spring 2021 South Atlantic Conference championship … Completed 117-of-189 (61.9%) passes for 1,852 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2021, posting a QB rating of 167.2 … Added 32 rushes for 100 yards and two scores on the ground;

Valdosta State: Went 28-3 as the Blazers’ starting quarterback, leading Valdosta to a Gulf South Conference 25-game winning streak from the final game of 2017 until his final game in 2019 that included winning the 2018 NCAA Division II National Championship … Two-time Gulf South Conference Championships and NCAA D-II playoff berths … Named Gulf South Conference Player of the Decade and first-team GSC All-Decade … Was twice a finalist for the Harlon Hill Trophy, finishing as the runner-up in 2018 and a two-time Gulf South Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 2018 and 2019 … Was an AFCA All-America first-team selection and a D2CCA All-Region first-team selection in 2019 … Finished eighth in VSU program history in rushing yards (1,932), fifth in rushing touchdowns (25), sixth in career completions (543), third in passing touchdowns (69) and second in total offense with 9,026 yards; 

High School: Amassed 5,125 passing yards with 32 touchdowns and 1,568 rushing yards with 41 TDs as a prep … Three-time WRHI Offensive Player of the Week and Tri-County Player of the Week once … High school coach was Ed Susi.

Personal: Is the son of Jaren and Rick Wells … Was born in Charlotte, N.C. … His older brother is Rylan Wells, who played at Jacksonville and is an assistant coach at WCU … Is the grandson of former Tennessee (1964-69) and Florida (1970-78) head football coach Doug Dickey, who also served as UT’s athletics director (1985-2002) … Graduated from VSU with a degree in business management in 2020.

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