May 2—Friday night's spring game capped off a series of 15 practice sessions for the Eastern Washington football team, which won't officially reconvene until July 28 when the 2026 preseason begins. Compared to the previous two scrimmages this spring, the Red-White game was a more even contest, with the offense scoring four touchdowns and the defense accruing most of its points through ...

May 1—One of the more obvious statistical shortcomings of last year's Eastern Washington football team was its lack of a dominant No. 1 receiver. During Friday's Red-White Game at Roos Field in Cheney, redshirt sophomore Jaxon Branch made a case for filling that role in 2026. The 6-foot-3 wideout caught nine passes for 140 yards and three touchdowns in the Eagles' final scrimmage of the ...

Apr. 25—As Eastern Washington's spring football practices enter their final week, the offensive coaches have yet to make a final call about who will be the team's No. 1 quarterback heading into preseason practices in August. That decision, head coach Aaron Best said, should be made soon after Friday's Red-White game. With only three quarterbacks on the roster at this point, it would seem like ...

Apr. 8—Eastern Washington athletics' 2026 Hall of Fame class, revealed by the school Wednesday, is headlined by a pair of All-American football players who starred for the celebrated 2004 team, which is also being inducted when EWU holds its ceremony Oct. 10. EWU quarterback Erik Meyer (2001-05) and his favorite receiver, Eric Kimble (2001-05), will join four other former Eagles in the ...

Mar. 31—With sunshine hard to come by on Tuesday, the 70 players on Eastern Washington's football roster practiced for the first time this spring at Roos Field. Positional shortages aren't unusual this time of year — Eastern won't practice with 19 of its high school recruits until this summer — and the Eagles will almost certainly add a few more transfers before August. But a smaller group ...

Mar. 30—After splitting their allotment of 15 offseason practices around the university's spring break the last few seasons, the Eastern Washington football team will eschew that interruption this year, when on Tuesday the Eagles will begin a consolidated set of spring sessions. The practices will conclude with the Red-White Game at 5 p.m. on May 1 at Roos Field in Cheney. To Aaron Best, who ...