Under the direction of first-year head coach Blake Anderson, Utah State football will begin fall camp on Friday, Aug. 6. All practices – minus two scrimmages – will be closed to the public.

Fans are invited to watch Utah State's first scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 14, at 11 a.m., and its final scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 21, at noon, as part of its annual Family Football Fun Day. Both scrimmages will be held on Merlin Olsen Field at Maverik Stadium.

Media availability for coaches and players will occur immediately following practice.

Utah State returns 18 starters (O-9, D-9) as part of 46 letterwinners (O-20, D-22, S-4) from last year's COVID-19-shortened season. Among this group are 14 Super Seniors. Along with 46 returning lettermen, Utah State welcomes back 27 more players (O-14, D-10, S-3) that were members of the program in 2020, while adding 32 newcomers (O-15, D-17), which includes 14 four-year transfers.

Highlighting Utah State's returners in 2021 are seven players that earned honorable mention all-Mountain West honors a season ago in graduate senior OL Demytrick Ali'ifua, graduate senior S Shaq Bond, graduate senior DE Nick Heninger, graduate senior DT Marcus Moore, senior KOR Savon Scarver, junior ILB AJ Vongphachanh and sophomore P Stephen Kotsanlee. In fact, Bond has been named honorable mention all-Mountain West in each of the past two seasons, while Scarver was a consensus All-American in 2018 and is the preseason Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Year heading into the 2021 campaign.

Utah State also welcomes three transfers that earned all-Sun Belt Conference honors at Arkansas State a season ago in graduate senior WR Brandon Bowling, graduate senior ILB Justin Rice and graduate junior QB Logan Bonner. Rice earned first-team all-conference honors last season at ASU and was also first-team all-Mountain West two years ago at Fresno State. Furthermore, Bowling and Bonner both garnered honorable mention all-Sun Belt honors last season for the Red Wolves.

Other starters returning for Utah State in 2021 include graduate senior RB Devonta'e Henry-Cole, senior OL Alfred Edwards, graduate senior CB Andre Grayson, senior CB Zahodri Jackson, senior ILB Kevin Meitzenheimer, senior TE Carson Terrell, senior WR Deven Thompkins, senior WR Derek Wright, junior CB Cam Lampkin, junior WR Justin McGriff, junior OL Jacob South, junior S Dominic Tatum and sophomore OL Falepule Alo.

Utah State will open the 2021 season on Saturday, Sept. 4, at Washington State, and begins its home season the following weekend against North Dakota on Friday, Sept. 10. Mountain West play begins for USU the following weekend at Air Force on Saturday, Sept. 18.