Just as Rice University, with its small size and occasionally offbeat culture, is an outlier among Football Bowl Subdivision programs, roommates Blaze Alldredge, Naeem Smith and Bradley Rozner are unique figures on Rice’s South Main campus.
All are junior college transfers — Alldredge from Celebration, Fla., by way of Pierce College in Los Angeles, Smith from Iowa City, Iowa, and Ellsworth (Iowa) JC and Rozner from Cisco College after graduating from Needville High School in Fort Bend County.