This week we shine the spotlight on the Greatest Tight Ends in Wyoming Football history.  Wyoming fans have all this week to vote for their favorite Cowboy tight ends through Wyoming Greats Fan Poll.
 
Each week a featured position group will include a 16-player bracket, with voting available for a four-player group each day throughout the week until a Cowboy is named as the winner of the Wyoming Greats Fan Poll at week's end.  To cast your vote go to the Wyoming Football's Official Twitter account @wyo_football.  Voting updates will be provided during the week @wyo_football.  At the end of each week, we'll announce on social media the former Cowboy great receiving the most fan votes and we'll have each week's voting summary at GoWyo.com/WyoGreats
 
We hope you enjoy looking back at the greatest Pokes.  We've included all UW Athletics Hall of Famers, along with All-Americans and some of the top All-Conference honorees at each position from all eras of Wyoming Football.
 
Here are the candidates for Wyoming's Greatest Tight Ends in history.
 
Tight Ends Bracket (Launches Monday, April 13, 2020)

1960s-1970s
Darryl Alleman (1964-65)
 
George Anderson (1967-69)
 
Mack Balls (1961-63)
 
Walter Howard (1974, 1976-77)
 
1980s
Bill Hoffman (1986-87)
 
Jay Novacek (1982-84)
 
James Williams (1980-82)
 
Gordie Wood (1987-90)
 
1990s
Julian Hooker (1994, 1997-98)
 
Mike Jones (1991-93)
 
Greg Kuhn (1994, 1996)
 
Matt Swenson (1989-92)
 
2000s-2010s
Wade Betschart (2004-07)
 
Josh Harshman, (2015-17, 2019)
 
Jacob Hollister (2014-16)
 
John Wadkowski (2004-05)

Throughout the spring, we will include bios of each week's winner in the Wyoming Greats Fan Poll.  See the fan selections below.

Mitch Donahue
Wyoming Fans' Choice as the Greatest Cowboy Defensive Lineman
 
Mitch Donahue's is one of the most decorated players in Wyoming Football history.  His senior season of 1990, Donahue earned First Team All-America honors from the Football Writers Association of America, Sporting News and NFL Draft Report.  He finished fourth in voting for the 1990 Outland Trophy Award, which honors the nation's top linemen. 
 
In both 1989 and '90, Donahue was honored as the Western Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and for three consecutive seasons (1988, '89 and '90) he was named First Team All-WAC.  He owns the Wyoming school records for career sacks (49.0) and sacks in a single season (22.0 in 1990).
 
Donahue was a leader on Wyoming teams that won back-to-back WAC titles in 1987 and '88, going a perfect 16-0 in league play over that two-year span.  The Cowboys also earned three bowl bids during his career -- the 1987 and '88 Holiday Bowls and 1990 Copper Bowl. 
 
In 2002, he earned the highest honor from the University of Wyoming Athletics Department when he was inducted into the UW Athletics Hall of Fame.  
  
Chase Roullier
Wyoming Fans' Choice as the Greatest Cowboy Offensive Lineman
 
Chase Roullier was named a 2016 Second Team All-American by USA Today Sports as a center.  He capped off his college career by being selected in the sixth round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins.  Since joining Washington, he has started 37 of 43 games at center for the Redskins over the past three seasons.  Roullier was invited to and participated in the 2016 East-West Shrine All-Star Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., and was also invited to and participated in the 2017 NFL Draft Combine in Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
A native of Savage, Minn., Roullier was a national semifinalist for the 2016 National Football Foundation William V. Campbell Scholar-Athlete Award.  He was also selected First Team All-Mountain West Conference in voting by conference head coaches and media as a senior and was named to both the 2016 Outland Trophy Watch List and the 2016 Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List.  During his career, he played in 48 games at Wyoming, starting 42 of those games.  That included starting all 14 games at center in 2016.  His senior season he was asked to move to center by the Cowboy coaching staff after playing guard his previous three seasons at Wyoming. 
 
Roullier was voted a team captain both his junior and senior seasons.  He helped the Cowboys win the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference in 2016, earning the Cowboys the right to host the 2016 Mountain West Football Championship Game.  Roullier and his teammates also earned a berth in the 2016 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl and ended the season with an 8-6 overall record and a 6-2 conference mark.  He earned Academic All-Conference honors all four years of his college career and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering.