EASTON, Pa. –  The Lafayette football program has added five student-athletes on National Signing Day. The group, which joins 13 who previously inked their commitments in December, brings the total to 18 in the Class of 2024.
 
This entire recruiting class features 11 on defense and seven on offense, all of whom signed National Letters of Intent. Wednesday's signings include two defensive backs, a defensive lineman, a tight end/fullback and a wide receiver as part of the eighth scholarship class in the Patriot League era.

"If you love Lafayette College football, you will be excited about the 2020 recruiting class we are constructing today on National Signing Day. In addition to the talented student-athletes we signed in December, we are thrilled to add a group of talented, hard-working, competitive student-athletes to this recruiting class," said John Garrett, the Fred M. Kirby '42 Head Football Coach. "Thanks to our coaches, our staff, our enrollment team and all those in our athletic department for their hard work and dedication to constructing a recruiting class that will make us proud on and off the field."
 
Wednesday's signees come from four different states: California, Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia. The Class of 2024, as a whole, is a geographically diverse group, arriving in Easton from 12 states: three each from New Jersey and Virginia, two apiece from Ohio and Pennsylvania and one apiece from California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina and Texas.

Lafayette's most recent recruiting class paid immediate benefits as 18 freshmen played in five or more games and nine of them started at least one game in 2019. Lafayette has had the last two Patriot League Rookies of the Year: DL Malik Hamm in 2018 (he was the P.L. Defensive Player of the Year in 2019) and QB Keegan Shoemaker in 2019. In 2018, 15 freshmen played in four or more games, including eight who had a start.

The team's spring season, consisting of 15 practice sessions, gets underway on March 22 and will conclude with the Maroon-White Spring Game on April 25 at 11 a.m. Lafayette opens the 2020 fall campaign on Sept. 5 at Sacred Heart and wraps the regular season on Nov. 21 when Lafayette hosts Lehigh in the 156^th meeting of college football's most-played and longest continuous rivalry.
 

NAME	POS.	HT	WT	HOMETOWN/HIGH SCHOOL
Neriyan Brown	DB	6-1	180	Atlanta, Ga./North Springs
Marcus Joseph	DL	6-4	290	Carson, Calif./Windward School
A.T. Ntantang	DB	5-9	195	Purcellville, Va./McDonogh
Max Runyon	TE/FB	6-1	225	Saddle River, N.J./St. Joseph's Regional
Zack Saturn	WR	6-1	185	Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J./Northern Highlands Regional