Syracuse landed its best-ever football recruit in this class, Calvin Russell, a talented, athletic, big-bodied, 5-star wide receiver from Miami.
Turns out, the Orange didn't just get a football player. Basketball is in the cards, too.
Russell is going to be joining the SU hoops team as a mid-semester addition, according to The Daily Orange's Aiden Stepansky.
"Calvin Russell's mother, Chanivia Broussard, told me today that Calvin will begin practicing with the SU basketball team and be on its bench once he gets to campus," Stepansky wrote Tuesday on X. "Calvin is set to move in this Thursday."
This seems like something that could've been in the works for a while, but regardless, it's very cool news.
Russell can join the list of some Syracuse legends that played multiple sports.
Jim Brown is the biggest name on that list, of course. The incredible football running back was also the best lacrosse player in the land and was a part of the basketball team, too.
Donovan McNabb, the superstar quarterback, played basketball under Jim Boeheim at Syracuse, too.
It's not a common double in modern college athletics, but a talent like Russell would be the type of player who could pull it off.
Maybe there are three or four years of this in the works. Maybe it's short-lived.
Either way, it's just a fun story in the modern world of specialization. Russell wants to keep playing two sports, and he's going to get that chance.
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