Florida Atlantic Owls NFL Draft Prospects

Florida Atlantic finished 4-8 (3-5 in the American) in Zach Kittley's debut season, a first-time head coach who inherited a program that had not sniffed a bowl since 2020 and immediately reshaped it in his own pass-first image. The centerpiece move was importing the quarterback-receiver tandem of Caden Veltkamp and Easton Messer from Western Kentucky, and the transplant took: the Owls flirted with 30 points per game and ranked among the most productive passing attacks in the country. The problem was the giveaways. Veltkamp paced the FBS with 17 interceptions, the Owls led every team in the nation with 29 turnovers, and a turnover margin near minus-21 turned promising afternoons into blowout losses. That single number is why Boca Raton enters Year Two labeled a strong candidate for one of the sport's larger turnarounds.