Wake Forest Announces Team Captains for the 2023 Season
4/15/2023 11:15:00 AM | Football
Mitch Griffis, Chase Jones, Michael Jurgens, Taylor Morin and Malik Mustapha were introduced as captains to the team ahead of the spring game.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Wake Forest football team has announced the captains for the 2023 season Saturday morning.
The five team captains for the upcoming season are redshirt sophomore quarterback Mitch Griffis, senior linebacker Chase Jones, redshirt senior offensive lineman Michael Jurgens, redshirt junior wide receiver Taylor Morin and junior defensive back Malik Mustapha.
The 2023 captains helped the Deacs defeat Southeastern Conference representative Missouri 27-17 in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 23, 2022. The win marked Wake Forest's fifth in the last seven years since the Deacs began the Atlantic Coast Conference's second-longest bowl streak and the country's tied for the 10th-longest back in 2016.
Since the start of the 2016 season, the Deacs are tied for the second-most wins in the ACC not counting the COVID-shortened 2020 season entering bowl season. Additionally over the last five years, the Deacs have the second-most wins in a single five-year period. With that, the Deacs have set a new standard for success in the win column with a record of 19-8 over the last two seasons. The 19 wins in a two-year period are the second most in school history and three away from the program record of 21 set in 2006 & 2007. Additionally, Wake Forest's 19-8 record is the ninth-best mark in all of Power-5 in the last two seasons.
Wake Forest is an astounding 20-4 at home since the start of the 2019 season thanks to the incredible atmosphere created by Wake Forest's fans and students inside Truist Field over the past few seasons.
Two of the five Demon Deacon captains return from a season ago as Jones and Jurgens head into their second and third seasons as the leaders of the team, respectively. This is just the second time in head coach Dave Clawson's 10-year tenure that a player has been named a team captain for three-consecutive years.
The five team captains for the upcoming season are redshirt sophomore quarterback Mitch Griffis, senior linebacker Chase Jones, redshirt senior offensive lineman Michael Jurgens, redshirt junior wide receiver Taylor Morin and junior defensive back Malik Mustapha.
The 2023 captains helped the Deacs defeat Southeastern Conference representative Missouri 27-17 in the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. on Dec. 23, 2022. The win marked Wake Forest's fifth in the last seven years since the Deacs began the Atlantic Coast Conference's second-longest bowl streak and the country's tied for the 10th-longest back in 2016.
Since the start of the 2016 season, the Deacs are tied for the second-most wins in the ACC not counting the COVID-shortened 2020 season entering bowl season. Additionally over the last five years, the Deacs have the second-most wins in a single five-year period. With that, the Deacs have set a new standard for success in the win column with a record of 19-8 over the last two seasons. The 19 wins in a two-year period are the second most in school history and three away from the program record of 21 set in 2006 & 2007. Additionally, Wake Forest's 19-8 record is the ninth-best mark in all of Power-5 in the last two seasons.
Wake Forest is an astounding 20-4 at home since the start of the 2019 season thanks to the incredible atmosphere created by Wake Forest's fans and students inside Truist Field over the past few seasons.
Two of the five Demon Deacon captains return from a season ago as Jones and Jurgens head into their second and third seasons as the leaders of the team, respectively. This is just the second time in head coach Dave Clawson's 10-year tenure that a player has been named a team captain for three-consecutive years.
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