➤ 2017 ➤ Junior Season
Awards: Earned the Outstanding Run-on Award, along with Tom Pancoast, at the annual team banquet...Named Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Appeared in all 13 games...Held on all placements during the season.
Georgia State (9/16): Completed his first career pass on his first collegiate throw to Jonathan Holland, for Holland's first career reception...Finished 1-of-2 passing for 8 yards. Nebraska (10/18): Named the coaching staff's Special Team's Player of the Week.
➤ 2016 ➤ Sophomore Season
Season: Appeared in four games...Held on all placements from Nov. 12 -26.
at Purdue (10/29): Made his collegiate debut in the fourth quarter. at Indiana (11/12): Was the coaching staff’s Special Teams Player of the Week
➤ 2015 ➤ Redshirt Freshman Season
Did not see any game action... Earned Dean's List accolades in the 2015 fall and 2016 spring semesters.
➤ 2014 ➤ True Freshman Season
Redshirt season...Earned Dean's List accolades in the 2014 fall semester.
➤ High School
A four-year letterman at Erie Cathedral Prep, playing for head coach Mike Mischler...Named first-team All-District 10 and first-team All-Region 6 as a standout scholastic athlete...Selected as the Erie Athlete of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year after leading Cathedral Prep to the 2012 PIAA Class AAAA State Championship and a 14-0 season...Owns the school record for most passing yards and touchdowns in a game...Helped lead Cathedral Prep to three District 10 championships in his four years...Selected to play in the East-West and North-South all-star games in western Pennsylvania...Lettered in basketball and baseball.
➤ Personal
Full name is William Gallagher Fessler...Son of Alison and Jim Fessler...Has three younger brothers, Charlie, Henry and James...Mother, Alison, is a Penn State graduate...Majoring in finance...Born August 6, 1995 in Erie, Pennsylvania.