Deseret News
PROVO — It’s a team that is often made fun of because of the age of its players.
But that doesn’t subtract from the quality of the person, the reality of their life’s trials, time in service between semesters, effort in practices, games, and injuries along the way. In fact, BYU’s oldest players usually go through a gauntlet.
Meet the oldest player on BYU’s 2019 football team, the ribbon-carrying certified team Yoda, the man with the most miles in the program: It is senior safety Sawyer Powell, a 6-foot-1 senior from West Richland, Washington.