Committed to Syracuse University: The “Dye Twins” Happy to Soon be Playing D-1 Football

Look out Syracuse University. It looks like as of next year, the SU Football team could have the next set of twin brothers playing on the same team. And who knows, they may end up being drafted.

Twin brothers Trashon and Travon Dye are great human beings who have everything going for them right now in their senior year of high school.

They also have everything going for them next year should they honor their pledge to play big-time Division I football in the ACC conference at a prestigious university.

Parent’s Time in Promoting the Twins’ Football Abilities

If you’re Trashon and Travon’s parents right now, you must be very proud of how far your boys have come since their pee wee days of football and driving them to and from practices.

It also shows the older you get, the time keeps going by faster and faster, as the boys are already in their senior year of high school.

The twins have already committed to play Division I football at Syracuse for 2024. These boys are currently dominating in their final year playing high school football at Passaic Tech in New Jersey.

They’re also extremely fast and athletic despite them not being the biggest football players in the league. Trashon is currently playing running back, while his twin Travon is a linebacker.

When they are expected to report to Syracuse next year, look for each of these boys to be suited up on defense and playing the linebacker position only.

What do the Twin Brothers Bring to the Table?

They may only be rated three stars by most recruiting rankings, but don’t let that fool you. These boys play more like they’re four-star recruits, and being from the Garden City, there is still a lot of talented 2 to 3-star talent Syracuse can recruit from.

Trashon is only 6’0″, 205 lbs., but he is a home run threat at running back and a wrecking ball as a linebacker. He rushed for 1,238 yards, scored 11 touchdowns, and made a whopping 137 tackles during their historic 2022 NJISAA Group 5 championship runners-up season.

As for Travon, he is only 6’1″, 215 lbs., but was also a multi-way player like his twin. He tallied eight touchdowns as a two-way quarterback-fullback and made four and a half sacks for a suffocating defense that gave up a mere 8.8 points a game.

How Both Boys Will Translate to Division 1 Football

They may not be the biggest set of twins to recently come out of high school football, but they are naturally athletic and have very quick speed that makes up for their sizes.

In fact, they will most likely fit very well in defensive coordinator Rocky Long’s 3-3-5 defense. It relies on smaller but talented linebackers who are fast and can bullrush opposing college quarterbacks coming off the edge on a blitz.

You can also drop them back into coverage, and they’re fast enough to be able to force interceptions in a very opportunistic and multiple-defensive scheme.

If you were to compare them to former sets of twin football players, you can say they play similar to the McCourty twins of the New England Patriots, except their linebackers, but have defensive back speed.

Also, you can compare them to the Brown twins, who were just drafted in 2023 out of Illinois.

What Positions will they be Playing at Syracuse?

As for right now, both twins will be playing linebacker for Dino Babers at Syracuse.

Trashon could also be used as a Debo Samuel type of gadget player if you line him up in the backfield, use him for quick screenplays, and also use him as a rotational running back, should he ever be needed to play running back.

As previously mentioned, Travon will solely be a linebacker too. But being a hybrid quarterback-full-back type, you could bring him in as a wildcat option use him like a Debo Samuel, or have him come in on goal-line “jumbo packages”, if they should ever need a backup.

Baber’s Thoughts about Having Them Come in Together

While the Syracuse boosters and student body could have just been content with having one of the Dye twins commit, don’t say that to coach Babers. He said the only way he would have recruited both Trashon and Travon is if they committed as a package deal to play for Syracuse football.

And I don’t blame Babers for wanting both of them. He obviously knows about the recent successes of both the McCourty brothers with the Patriots and the Brown twins at Illinois.

He wants to keep the “twin effect” rolling by having his own set of potential superstar twins at Syracuse University next season.

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