2025 Football Roster
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Petry, Mark

Jersey Number 72
Mark Petry
- Position:
- Offensive Line
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 301
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Hochheim am Main, Germany
- High School:
- Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium
- Prev School:
- Ellsworth Community College
Bio
Career Overview:Â Offensive lineman who has played in 39 games with 24 starts across five seasons at SU ... Enrolled at Syracuse in January 2020 ... Spent his freshman season at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa.
Redshirt Senior Year (2024): Started every game at guard ... Played 1,022 offensive snaps, nearly all at right guard ... Allowed just three sacks on 673 dropbacks ... Graded at 68.2 in pass blocking, according to Pro Football Focus and 62.9 overall ... Paved the way for LeQuint Allen Jr. to rush for over 1,000 yards ... Helped protect Kyle McCord to set the ACC and Syracuse passing yardage record and for the Orange to lead the nation in passing offense.Â
Redshirt Junior Year (2023): Played in every game and started the final-11 games of the regular season at right tackle ... Played 758 offensive snaps and allowed just three sacks and one quarterback hit ...  Helped pave the way for LeQuint Allen to reach the 1,000 yard threshold, marking the third-straight season Syracuse had a back cross the threshold ... When Syracuse turned to a run-focused attack late in the season, he helped pave the way for an offense that finished with over 172 yards per game on the ground.
Redshirt Sophomore Year (2022): Appeared in three games ... Saw time in the UConn (9/10) and Wagner (10/1) games ... Earned his most significant playing time in the second half of the Boston College (11/26) game, where the Orange scored 26 unanswered fourth quarter points to win ... He and the offensive line helped pave the way for Sean Tucker to rush to another 1,000-yard season and become the first player in program history to post back-to-back seasons with 1,000+ rushing yards and 250+ receiving yards ... Part of a unit that allowed the offense to see significant improvements in 2022. Syracuse’s passing efficiency rating upgrade from 108th in the FBS in 2021, to 45th nationally and fourth in the ACC. The Orange also improved to eighth in the ACC in total offense (from 10th), seventh in passing offense (from 14th), second in red zone offense (from 13th) and seventh in scoring offense (from 10th) ... Member of the ACC Honor Roll ... Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in both semesters.Â
Redshirt Year (2021): Missed the entire season due to injury.
Sophomore Year (2020): Played in 10 games as a reserve offensive lineman and on the PAT/Field goal unit … Blocked for a PAT/FG unit that made 9-of-11 field goals and 23-of-24 PATs on the season ... Made his Syracuse debut in the season opener vs. North Carolina (9/12) ... Only game he did not see action in was at Louisville (11/20) ... Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall semester.
Freshman Year (2019 at Ellsworth CC): ICCAC All-Region Honorable Mention choice … Played in eight games … Blocked for an Ellsworth offense that averaged 119.7 rushing yards per game … Helped the Panthers run for 241 yards and score a season-high 35 points against the College of DuPage (9/28).
Club: Tight end and defensive end for the Mainz Golden Eagles in Germany … Played handball for two years.Â
Personal: Mark Petry … Born on October 14, 1998 in Wiesbaden Hessen, Germany … Son of Ilona and Alfons Petry … One sister … Majoring in health and exercise science in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.
Redshirt Senior Year (2024): Started every game at guard ... Played 1,022 offensive snaps, nearly all at right guard ... Allowed just three sacks on 673 dropbacks ... Graded at 68.2 in pass blocking, according to Pro Football Focus and 62.9 overall ... Paved the way for LeQuint Allen Jr. to rush for over 1,000 yards ... Helped protect Kyle McCord to set the ACC and Syracuse passing yardage record and for the Orange to lead the nation in passing offense.Â
Redshirt Junior Year (2023): Played in every game and started the final-11 games of the regular season at right tackle ... Played 758 offensive snaps and allowed just three sacks and one quarterback hit ...  Helped pave the way for LeQuint Allen to reach the 1,000 yard threshold, marking the third-straight season Syracuse had a back cross the threshold ... When Syracuse turned to a run-focused attack late in the season, he helped pave the way for an offense that finished with over 172 yards per game on the ground.
Redshirt Sophomore Year (2022): Appeared in three games ... Saw time in the UConn (9/10) and Wagner (10/1) games ... Earned his most significant playing time in the second half of the Boston College (11/26) game, where the Orange scored 26 unanswered fourth quarter points to win ... He and the offensive line helped pave the way for Sean Tucker to rush to another 1,000-yard season and become the first player in program history to post back-to-back seasons with 1,000+ rushing yards and 250+ receiving yards ... Part of a unit that allowed the offense to see significant improvements in 2022. Syracuse’s passing efficiency rating upgrade from 108th in the FBS in 2021, to 45th nationally and fourth in the ACC. The Orange also improved to eighth in the ACC in total offense (from 10th), seventh in passing offense (from 14th), second in red zone offense (from 13th) and seventh in scoring offense (from 10th) ... Member of the ACC Honor Roll ... Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in both semesters.Â
Redshirt Year (2021): Missed the entire season due to injury.
Sophomore Year (2020): Played in 10 games as a reserve offensive lineman and on the PAT/Field goal unit … Blocked for a PAT/FG unit that made 9-of-11 field goals and 23-of-24 PATs on the season ... Made his Syracuse debut in the season opener vs. North Carolina (9/12) ... Only game he did not see action in was at Louisville (11/20) ... Member of the SU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the fall semester.
Freshman Year (2019 at Ellsworth CC): ICCAC All-Region Honorable Mention choice … Played in eight games … Blocked for an Ellsworth offense that averaged 119.7 rushing yards per game … Helped the Panthers run for 241 yards and score a season-high 35 points against the College of DuPage (9/28).
Club: Tight end and defensive end for the Mainz Golden Eagles in Germany … Played handball for two years.Â
Personal: Mark Petry … Born on October 14, 1998 in Wiesbaden Hessen, Germany … Son of Ilona and Alfons Petry … One sister … Majoring in health and exercise science in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.
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