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PULLMAN – Around his Washington State teammates, Isaac Terrell hardly goes by his first name anymore.
A third-year edge rusher, Terrell often responds to a different name entirely, but it isn’t a nickname that sounds like his birth name, or even an offshoot.
He goes by Bobby.
Playing youth football in his hometown of Lehi, Utah, he started to get comparisons to the character Bobby Boucher, played by Adam Sandler in the 1998 flick “The Waterboy.” Teammates and parents started to think they looked alike, so he took on the name Bobby.
It followed him around since. At Lehi High, where he earned a wrestling state title as a junior and recorded 10.5 sacks on the football field as a senior, the football PA announcer referred to him that way. “Bobby Terrell with the tackle” would ring out across the speakers. “Bobby Terrell on the sack.”
Word spread to interested college coaches, including schools that offered him such as Cal and San Jose State. But when he arrived in Pullman in 2023, he was Isaac for some time.
That was until one fall camp practice, when former defensive tackles coach Pete Kaligis dropped Isaac’s first name. He called him Bobby.
“All the players were around, and then they heard Bobby,” Terrell said. “Now everyone calls me Bobby.”
As Terrell angles toward his junior season, he’s planning to earn more similarities with Bobby Boucher than just an appearance.
Terrell appears poised for a breakout junior season, ready to leverage his relatively smaller frame – 6-foot-2, 248 pounds – and wreak havoc in backfields with the kind of playing time he hasn’t enjoyed.
Until now. Terrell played nine games as a freshman in 2023, then all 12 in 2024, totaling 12 tackles, one for loss. Suddenly an upperclassman, Terrell might not feel like a veteran yet, but he’s in…
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Publish date : 2025-04-09 03:59:00
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