Steve Bergum

As complimentary comparisons go, it doesn’t get much better than the one Eastern Washington University’s starting quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell slapped on Eagles wide receiver Nicholas Edwards earlier this week. “I kind of think of him as Jerry Rice-esque,” Mitchell said of Edwards, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound junior and three-year starter from Tacoma. “There’s just something about the way the guy prepares and attacks the game that makes him different.”

As complimentary comparisons go, it doesn’t get much better than the one Eastern Washington University’s starting quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell slapped on Eagles wide receiver Nicholas Edwards earlier this week. “I kind of think of him as Jerry Rice-esque,” Mitchell said of Edwards.

There was a much- anticipated, and welcomed – for Eastern Washington University football fans, at least – Renard Williams sighting at Roos Field last weekend. And it couldn’t have come at a better time for a struggling EWU football team that was trying to snap a four-game losing streak against a physical Weber State team, dedicated to punishing opponents with its power running game.

There was a much-anticipated, and welcomed – for Eastern Washington University football fans, at least – Renard Williams sighting at Roos Field last weekend.

With its ranks already thinned dramatically by injuries, Eastern Washington’s winless football team is bracing for another demanding physical challenge this afternoon when Big Sky Conference leader Weber State arrives at Roos Field. Kickoff is set for 12:35, and the Wildcats (2-2 overall, 2-0 Big Sky) are coming off back-to-back dominant performances in a 49-17 home win over then 20th-ranked Sacramento State on Sept. 17 and a 45-21 road win over Northern Colorado last Saturday.

With its ranks already thinned dramatically by injuries, Eastern Washington’s winless football team is bracing for yet another demanding physical challenge Saturday afternoon when Big Sky Conference leader Weber State invades Roos Field.

It was on the bus ride back from Missoula, where Eastern Washington had just been stung by a 17-14 Big Sky Conference football loss to Montana, that Patrick Mealey made the transition from a third-string heavyweight tight end to an emergency flyweight center. And last Saturday, less than six days after making the change, the Central Valley graduate and University of Idaho transfer – all 245 pounds of him – was rushed into action at his new position after senior center Chris Powers tore the posterior cruciate ligament in this right knee midway through the second quarter of the Eagles’ 36-21 home-opening loss to Montana State.

Talk to the coaches and players on Eastern Washington’s still-winless football team, and, to a man, they’ll tell you that things don’t feel that far off. They do feel 0-4, however, which is where the 21st-ranked Eagles found themselves following Saturday’s 36-21 Big Sky Conference loss to Montana State that was witnessed by a Roos Field crowd of 10,422.

Talk to the coaches and players on Eastern Washington’s still-winless football team, and, to a man, they’ll tell you that things don’t feel that far off.