University of Delaware Athletics
2024 Football Roster
Saunders, Ethan
Jersey Number 8
Ethan Saunders
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Waynesboro, Pa.
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 250
- High School:
- Waynesboro
- Major:
- Strategic Leadership
Bio
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team
- Six-time member of the CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
- 2023 CSC Academic All-District Team
2024 SEASON
- Appeared in all 11 games, making two starts
- Finished the season with 23 tackles, a QB hurry and two fumble recoveries
- Tied for third on the team with 5.5 TFLs and 3.0 sacks
- Had a season-high five tackles as well as 1.5 TFLs and a sack against Penn (9/21)
- Returned a 20-yard fumble return for a TD against Sacred Heart (9/28)
- Had a sack and a fumble recovery at N.C. A&T (9/14)
- Recorded three tackles and 1.5 TFLs against Villanova (11/23)
- CSC Academic All-District Team
2023 SEASON
- Team Captain
- Appeared in all 13 games, making one start
- Finished with 19 tackles, 4.0 TFLs, 1.0 sacks and four QBH
- Had two tackles, a sack at Towson (10/28)
- Recorded a season-high three tackles on four occasions
- Earned High Honors with Distinction on the Fall CAA Football Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
- CSC Academic All-District Team
2022 SEASON
- Appeared in 12 games
- Finished with nine tackles 2.0 TFL, and 1.5 sacks
- Season-high of three tackles against Monmouth
- Selected to the 2022 Fall and 2023 Spring CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
2021 SEASON
- Appeared in two games, seeing action against Rutgers and William & Mary
- Registered a tackle at Rutgers
- Selected to the 2021 Fall and 2022 Spring CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
2020-21 SEASON
- Did not see game action in his first season with the Blue Hens
- Selected to the 2021 Spring CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll
Bio: A three-year starter at Waynesboro Area Senior High School... A two-time selection to the all-conference first team as both a defensive and offensive lineman... Team captain his junior and senior years... Helped team claim the 2017 Mid-Penn Colonial Championship... Served as Class President and member of National Honor Society... Ethan Wiley Saunders... Born July 3... Parents are Kim and Mark Saunders... Both parents were student-athletes... Kim played volleyball at Drexel and Mark played football at Johnson C. Smith... Economics major at the University of Delaware
Delaware Football Weekly Press Conference - Week 4
Monday, September 15
Delaware Football Weekly Press Conference - Week 3
Monday, September 08
Delaware Football Weekly Press Conference - Week 2
Tuesday, September 02
Delaware Football Postgame Press Conference - Delaware State 8/28/25
Monday, September 01
