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Stony Brook Seawolves

2025 Football Roster

2 Chris Zellous

  • Position QB
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 225
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Greensboro, N.C.
  • High School Grimsley High
  • Prev School Hampton

Biography

2025: First season with Stony Brook, beginning the year as the starting quarterback and starting seven games while appearing in 10 during the 2025 season… Completed 111-of-179 passes for seven passing touchdowns and five interceptions… Rushed for 401 yards and five touchdowns, both ranking second on the team… Recorded at least 200 total yards in six of his seven starts… Threw for 260 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 53 yards and a touchdown in the victory over Fordham on Sept. 13, earning CAA Offensive Player of the Week honors on Sept. 15… Posted season highs with 117 rushing yards and 167 passing yards, adding a passing touchdown in the win over Merrimack on Sept. 27… Accounted for 271 total yards, including a season-high three rushing touchdowns and one passing touchdown, in the Golden Apple victory over UAlbany on Oct. 4… In his final start of the season, rushed for 107 yards and passed for 103 yards at Monmouth on Oct. 18.

AT HAMPTON (2021-24): Started all 12 games at quarterback for the Pirates in 2024… Completed 106-of-167 passes (.635) for 1,030 yards and six touchdowns… Rushed 85 times for 328 yards (3.9 yards per carry) with six rushing touchdowns… Went 20-of-25 for 185 yards and rushed seven times for 60 yards including two touchdowns against Norfolk State on Sept. 14… Completed 10-of-11 passes for 88 yards and a touchdown against Howard on Sept. 21… Was 10-of-12 for 90 yards against Richmond on Nov. 16… Named the inaugural Brick City Classic Offensive MVP in 2023… Selected as CAA Offensive Player of the Week after leading Hampton to a win over Grambling State… Rushed for a season-high 114 yards against Grambling State… Accounted for four total touchdowns and over 250 yards of offense in that game… Threw for 256 yards and three total touchdowns in the win over Richmond… Had two or more passing touchdowns in four separate games… Finished the season ranked 15th in the CAA in rushing yards… Voted team MVP… Played in five games in 2022, finishing with four total touchdowns, passing for 287 yards and rushing for 183 yards… Passed for two touchdowns on 14 attempts against Elon while rushing for a career-high 94 yards… Set a career high with 153 passing yards in his first game at quarterback… Threw his first collegiate touchdown on the road at Norfolk State… Appeared in four games as a freshman in 2021… Rushed for six yards on one attempt in his debut against Howard… Posted a season-high 49 rushing yards at Charleston Southern… Finished the freshman season with 78 rushing yards.

AT GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL: Passed and rushed for over 1,000 yards his senior year… Ranked 39th in the state of North Carolina for total yards… Ended his high school career with over 3,000 passing yards.

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