The 2019 Syracuse Orange football season is nearly here, and with that, we’ve arrived at our final position group preview of the summer.

Each week leading up to this season, we’ve been profiling one group and every player on the roster this fall. Last week, we examined what should be a pretty impressive and deep collection of Orange defensive backs. We close with:

Special Teams

It wasn’t too long ago that Syracuse special teams was an afterthought. With no dedicated coordinator for the group, and disastrous results, it usually did more harm than good for the Orange — aside from punting, of course, which has actually been pretty rock solid for much of the last decade at least.