The 6-foot-4, 245-pound Richboro, Pa., native missed the 2023 season after suffering a knee injury during fall camp in August. Gallo was projected to start at tight end again, but his knee injury paved the way for sophomore Dae’Quan Wright to be VT’s No. 1 tight end. Wright had a solid season for the Hokies but entered the NCAA transfer portal in November.

There was talk of the Hokies looking for a veteran tight end in the portal, but Pry likes the young players at the position, such as Benji Gosnell, Harrison Saint Germain and Zeke Wimbush. Additionally, Pry also knew there was a good chance Gallo would return in 2024.

The 2024 season will be Gallo’s sixth in Blacksburg. Gallo arrived in 2019 and has appeared in 46 career games for the Hokies with 27 starts. He has 55 receptions for 469 yards and one touchdown.

Gallo is a solid blocker and will give the Hokies another option to pair with Gosnell and Saint Germain, who both expect to see plenty of time next season. Gosnell and Saint Germain caught a touchdown pass in Virginia Tech’s Military Bowl win over Tulane.

ell, that was fun. Virginia Tech hadn’t won a bowl game since 2016, so that one was long past due. The Hokies’ 41-20 dismantling of a solid but short-handed Tulane team gave them a winning record (7-6), and they’ll now go into the offseason with momentum and confidence. It wouldn’t have been the end of the world if they had lost the game, but 7-6 looks and sounds a lot better than 6-7.

Officially, that was a 6-6 Virginia Tech team taking on an 11-2 Tulane squad, but that wasn’t the reality. Start the season over again with everything we know now about Kyron Drones and the post-Marshall scheme tweak and I think the Hokies would have beaten the Thundering Herd and Purdue to go 8-4. Likewise, Tulane without starting quarterback Michael Pratt is probably also around 8-4. In the end, it was a couple of teams whose overall records didn’t tell the entire story, and it was the team with positive momentum, a full coaching staff, more overall talent and the better quarterback who won.

Things didn’t go too well for the ACC in bowl games yesterday, with UNC and Louisville being handled with relative ease by West Virginia and USC, respectively. The Hokies did their part, though, and now they are set up to receive some deserved hype as we head into the offseason. The transfer portal isn’t done yet and we don’t know what everyone’s 2024 rosters will look like, but Virginia Tech is going to be one of those teams that people view as a possibility to challenge Florida State next season. The schedule sets up pretty well and the Hokies have done some very nice work in the transfer portal. It’s been awhile since I’ve been this excited for a season, maybe since 2017 or 2018. But that’s another article for another day.

Wednesday’s game was close, but it really wasn’t. Yes, it was 17-17 early in the third quarter. Sure, it was only a 27-20 lead early in the fourth quarter. But it never felt that close. It felt like Virginia Tech was the better team the whole time and things fell into place over the last 10 minutes or so. There’s really only one main topic that I want to talk about today.