From the Media Room: UMass

Following a win over Middle Tennessee and gaining their sixth and bowl eligible win of 2024, Liberty Head Football Coach Jamey Chadwell met with the media on Tuesday to talk about this week's match-up at UMass.

After Chadwell's weekly presser, Flames' offensive lineman Xavior Gray and defensive tackle Bryce Dixon addressed the media from the Media Room inside the Liberty Football Center.

The Flames and Minutemen are squaring off for the seventh consecutive season. Liberty is 5-1 versus UMass, having won five straight meetings and scoring 42+ points every time it has faced the Minutemen.

Liberty snapped a two-game losing skid last Saturday, rushing for a season-best 339 yards in a 37-17 victory at Middle Tennessee.

The win over Middle Tennessee made the Flames bowl eligible for the sixth consecutive season.

Jamey Chadwell is 19-3 in his second year at Liberty and owns a 50-9 coaching record dating back to the start of 2020. He has a chance to eclipse Hugh Freeze's mark (26 games) as the fastest Liberty head coach to record his 20th win.

QB Kaidon Salter accounted for three total TDs (two passing, one rushing) vs. Middle Tennessee. With his season-best 94 rushing yards, Salter (1,859 yards) became Liberty's all-time leading rusher among QBs, breaking Malik Willis' record of 1,822.

RB Quinton Cooley has tallied six 100-yard rushing performances this season and 13 in his first 22 games as a Flame. He carried the ball 24 times for 136 yards and a score last week against Middle Tennessee. A year ago, Cooley needed only eight carries to post 102 yards vs. UMass, aided by a 60-yard TD run. Cooley is 149 rushing yards away from 1,000 for the season.

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Players Mentioned

Quinton Cooley

Bryce Dixon

Xavior Gray

Kaidon Salter