2023 Football Roster
Webster, Maximus
Jersey Number 44
Maximus Webster
- Position:
- Tight End
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 230
- Class:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Hometown:
- Sheridan, Ind.
- Prev School:
- Westfield HS
- High School:
- Westfield HS
Bio
Shuffled between tight end and running back in spring 2024, and alternated at both positions into the season's opening week before a season-ending injury ... goes by Max but asks that his full first name of Maximus be used on first reference "because that's the name my mother gave me."
Awards and Honors:
2023 Academic All-MAC
2024 (R-So.): Injured in the Cardinals' opening game against Missouri State and did not play the rest of the season ... earned a medical hardship.
2023 (R-Fr.): Appeared in 12 games, starting four, as a reserve tight end ... caught five passes for 16 yards with a long of 9 against Georgia Southern (Sept. 23) ... caught his lone touchdown a week later at Western Michigan (Sept. 30).
2022 (Fr.): Did not see game action, earned a redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year letterwinner at Westfield as a quarterback … played for head coach Jake Gilbert … tabbed as a three-star prospect and the third-best linebacker recruit in the state by ESPN … chosen as an all-state and all-conference performer … threw for 4,358 yards with 43 touchdowns and six interceptions on 277-of-407 in two seasons as the signal caller … also rushed for 1,326 yards on 235 carries for 25 touchdowns … captained team to 24-4 record in final two seasons … team was state runner-up during junior season … was a four-year letterwinner in baseball where he was also an all-conference player … member of the National Honor Society.
PERSONAL: Son of Michael and Charlene Webster … has three brothers: Austin, Justin and Mikeah, who is a freshman teammate with the Cardinals this season … uncle, Matthew Webster, played basketball at Evansville and overseas professionally in France … plans to major in finance .. uses by the given family name of Maximus, though goes by Max among friends (or subsequent reference by broadcasters).
Awards and Honors:
2023 Academic All-MAC
2024 (R-So.): Injured in the Cardinals' opening game against Missouri State and did not play the rest of the season ... earned a medical hardship.
2023 (R-Fr.): Appeared in 12 games, starting four, as a reserve tight end ... caught five passes for 16 yards with a long of 9 against Georgia Southern (Sept. 23) ... caught his lone touchdown a week later at Western Michigan (Sept. 30).
2022 (Fr.): Did not see game action, earned a redshirt.
HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year letterwinner at Westfield as a quarterback … played for head coach Jake Gilbert … tabbed as a three-star prospect and the third-best linebacker recruit in the state by ESPN … chosen as an all-state and all-conference performer … threw for 4,358 yards with 43 touchdowns and six interceptions on 277-of-407 in two seasons as the signal caller … also rushed for 1,326 yards on 235 carries for 25 touchdowns … captained team to 24-4 record in final two seasons … team was state runner-up during junior season … was a four-year letterwinner in baseball where he was also an all-conference player … member of the National Honor Society.
PERSONAL: Son of Michael and Charlene Webster … has three brothers: Austin, Justin and Mikeah, who is a freshman teammate with the Cardinals this season … uncle, Matthew Webster, played basketball at Evansville and overseas professionally in France … plans to major in finance .. uses by the given family name of Maximus, though goes by Max among friends (or subsequent reference by broadcasters).
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