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2022 Football Roster
Butler, Ryan
Jersey Number 21
Ryan Butler
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 225
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Plainfield, N.J.
- High School:
- Bergen Catholic
Bio
Accolades:
Honorable Mention All-Ivy (2022)
FCS Jerry Rice Award Watch List (2022)
Phil Steele Third-Team All-Ivy (2022)
Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 19, 2022, Oct. 3, 2022, Oct. 17, 2022, Oct. 24, 2022, Oct. 31, 2022)
2022: Set the freshman rushing touchdown record with 11 … Appeared in every game … Ran for 501 yards while adding 12 catches for 87 yards …
Collected 94 total yards with two combined touchdowns vs. Harvard ... Had 100 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns vs. Brown ... Totaled 76 all-purpose yards, adding two touchdowns at Lafayette ... Combined for 56 all-purpose yards and a touchdown at Columbia ... Ran for 67 yards and two touchdowns at Stetson.
Before Princeton:
Bergen Catholic: Three-time All-State including First-Team All-State as a senior … Three-time All-County and All-Conference … Conference Player of the Year in 2021 … School’s all-time leader in All-Purpose yards … Became the second person to ever break 3,000 career rushing yards … Is second in program history in touchdowns … Team was two-time state champion and ranked as high in No. 3 in the country … Lettered in track … National Honor Society … Member of the Mu Alpha Theta, English and Social Studies Honor Society … Finished in the top 10 percent of his class …. Earned the Thomas Fuchs Medal for Mathematics.
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Personal: Son of Mark Butler … Has a sister, Vivienne … Father, Mark, played football at Penn State.
Honorable Mention All-Ivy (2022)
FCS Jerry Rice Award Watch List (2022)
Phil Steele Third-Team All-Ivy (2022)
Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 19, 2022, Oct. 3, 2022, Oct. 17, 2022, Oct. 24, 2022, Oct. 31, 2022)
2022: Set the freshman rushing touchdown record with 11 … Appeared in every game … Ran for 501 yards while adding 12 catches for 87 yards …
Collected 94 total yards with two combined touchdowns vs. Harvard ... Had 100 all-purpose yards and two touchdowns vs. Brown ... Totaled 76 all-purpose yards, adding two touchdowns at Lafayette ... Combined for 56 all-purpose yards and a touchdown at Columbia ... Ran for 67 yards and two touchdowns at Stetson.
Before Princeton:
Bergen Catholic: Three-time All-State including First-Team All-State as a senior … Three-time All-County and All-Conference … Conference Player of the Year in 2021 … School’s all-time leader in All-Purpose yards … Became the second person to ever break 3,000 career rushing yards … Is second in program history in touchdowns … Team was two-time state champion and ranked as high in No. 3 in the country … Lettered in track … National Honor Society … Member of the Mu Alpha Theta, English and Social Studies Honor Society … Finished in the top 10 percent of his class …. Earned the Thomas Fuchs Medal for Mathematics.
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Personal: Son of Mark Butler … Has a sister, Vivienne … Father, Mark, played football at Penn State.
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