2023 • REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SEASON
Did not see any game action.
2022 • TRUE FRESHMAN SEASON
Awards: Earned the team's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Year with Jan Mahlert.
Season: Redshirt season...Appeared in two games...Selected the coaching staff's Developmental Squad Offensive Player of the Week three times (Northwestern, 10/1; Indiana, 11/5; Michigan State, 11/26).
HIGH SCHOOL
Three-year letterman at Archbishop Spalding High School for head coach Kyle Schmitt...Team posted a 10-1 record during senior season...Was a Capital Gazette second-team all-county selection his senior year...Also participated in the Big 33 All-Star Classic...Was teammates with current Penn State safety Zakee Wheatley at Archbishop Spalding.
PERSONAL
Full name is James Charles Fitzgerald...Son of Gail and Dave Fitzgerald...Has three brothers, Patrick, David and Charles...Father, Dave, played football at Navy...Uncle played football at Auburn and grandfather played football at Southern Miss...Enjoys fishing, hunting and boating in his free time...Is undecided on a major...Would like to be an airline pilot in the future.