Seven members of the SUNY Cortland football team have been named to the 2022 D3football.com All-Region 2 team. 
 
Region 2 includes Cortland's conference, the Empire 8, along with the Liberty League, Centennial Conference, New Jersey Athletic Conference, and Presidents' Athletic Conference. 
 
Sophomore running back Jaden Alfanostjohn (Westhampton/Westhampton Beach), senior offensive guard Connor Hill (Newfane), senior cornerback Joshua Cordero (Monroe/Monroe-Woodbury) and junior special teams player/kickoff specialist Patrick Luby (Ridgewood, NJ) were named to the all-region first team. Senior offensive tackle Daquan Griffin (Ithaca) was selected to the second team, while sophomore quarterback Zac Boyes (Buffalo/Kenmore West) and junior wide receiver Cole Burgess (Greenwich) were third-team honorees. 
 
All seven players were previously chosen to the All-Empire 8 first team, and all are eligible for selection to the D3football.com All-America team that will be announced Dec. 16 prior to the NCAA Division III championship game. Cortland's seven all-region selections are the second-highest total in Region 2, behind only Johns Hopkins' eight honorees. 
 
Alfanostjohn started all 10 games in which he appeared this fall. He carried the ball 195 times for 1,024 yards and 17 touchdowns and caught 16 passes for 216 yards and one score. He ran for at least one touchdown in each of his 10 games. Alfanostjohn ran for 247 yards in a win over Morrisville, had 162 rushing yards on just 12 carries in a win at Utica, and rushed for 119 yards and three touchdowns in a victory at Brockport. 
 
Hill is a repeat all-region honoree; he was named to the third team last year. Hill and Griffin each started all 11 games and helped Cortland set school single game records with 45.1 points per game, 5,496 total offensive yards, and 499.6 yards per game. The Red Dragons set a school single-game record with 681 yards of total offense in a win over Wittenberg and gained more than 600 yards on two other occasions (home wins vs. Hartwick and St. John Fisher). 
 
Cordero started all 11 games and finished the season with 39 tackles, six interceptions and seven pass breakups. He returned three interceptions for touchdowns, tying a school single-season record for defensive touchdowns. Cordero also matched a school single-game record with three interceptions in a win over The College of New Jersey. 
 
Luby posted 36 touchbacks on 77 kickoffs this fall. His 46.7 touchback percentage is the highest by a Red Dragon since season totals for the statistic were first tracked in 2006. Luby also served as Cortland's punter and averaged 36.7 yards per punt on 23 attempts. 
 
Boyes started all 11 games and completed 166-of-245 passes (67.8 percent) for 2,826 yards and 28 touchdowns. He also ran 71 times for 376 yards and two scores. His passing yardage total is the third highest in school history, and he established a school single-season record with a 194.2 passing efficiency rating. Boyes broke the school single-game record with 543 yards in a win over Wittenberg. He threw for four touchdowns in a game four times and had three TD passes on two other occasions. 
 
Burgess is an all-region honoree for the second time; he was a third-team All-East kick returner in 2018. This fall he played in 10 games, all as a starter, and caught 37 passes for 816 yards and 11 touchdowns. Burgess had four 100-yard receiving games, including four catches for 161 yards and two scores in a win over St. John Fisher and four catches for 140 yards, including a school record-tying three TD catches, in a victory over The College of New Jersey. 
 
Cortland finished the year with an 9-2 record. The Red Dragons repeated as outright Empire 8 champions with a 6-0 mark and earned an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III playoffs. Cortland lost at Randolph-Macon in the first round to tie for 17th place nationally.