Wake Forest Demon Deacons NCAA Football News

Every NFL Draft we see numerous prospects who left college a year early to make an impact on pro football.

ESPN The Magazine's Ryan McGee named five programs that are on the verge of turning the corner, and Wake Forest made the cut .

The NFL Combine invite list is out, and there are four Demon Deacons on it. Junior Chris Givens, who declared for the NFL Draft after the team's loss to Mississippi State in the Music City Bowl, OL Joe Looney , S Cyhl Quarles and LB Kyle Wilber will all have the chance to improve their draft stock in Indianapolis from Feb.

Fantasy football website Rotoworld.com has steadily increased it's NFL draft coverage , and recently came out with their first mock draft of the year.

West Virginia's recruiting class rounded into pretty good shape pretty quickly Wednesday, just the way coaches like it to go.

Coach Jim Grobe continued to mine the Sunshine State for recruits, with eight of the 19 signees announced Wednesday coming from Florida.

National Signing Day came and went almost as fast as football season did. South Iredell showed once again it is the top of the class with athlete Quataye Smyre signing his National Letter of Intent to East Carolina.

Most of the drama of the 2012 version of National Signing Day has come and gone, but not before several top recruits in the nation made their decision earlier this morning.

Quinshad Davis, the second best recruit in South Carolina according to Rivals, has committed to the University of North Carolina, announcing the news on National Signing Day 2012.

Duke made an addition to its football recruiting class Tuesday, returning to a school where it had earlier success to fill a hole the day before national signing day.

It's not the most popular approach and it annually results in the Deacons' being somewhere in the second half of the national recruiting rankings.

Coach Jim Grobe of Wake Forest has had so much success with one left-handed quarterback that he went out and landed two more.

Wake Forest offensive guard Joe Looney received a late invitation to the 63rd Annual Senior Bowl on Saturday, Jan.

As one football player from Royal Palm Beach High School in Florida walks out the door at Wake Forest, another is set to walk in.

The 2012 East-West Shrine Game is now in the books. As one of the premier annual spectacles of NFL Draft prospects, the purpose of this game is for all of the participants to showcase their skill sets to NFL scouts.

The choice came as somewhat of a surprise because Mackey, a junior defensive end, played a few downs after suffering a serious knee injury in the 2011 season opener.

The junior offensive guard, who was waiting for his evaluation from the NFL College Advisory Board before making a decision about his future, is not among the record 65 underclassmen entered in this year's draft .

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N.C. State star C.J. Leslie has apparently paid his pennance for whatever transgression he committed to get pulled from the starting lineup at Wake Forest on Saturday.

Between a three-game NCAA suspension to start the season, persistent leg cramps and a dramatic buzzer-beating game-winning basket against St.