
04-05-2009, 09:14 PM
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-- I'm sure everyone wants to know who's working on the first team units. So here's your first-team offense (at least for the majority of the reps. They worked on some specialty situations where personnel varied
LT: Andrew Miller
LG: Justin Boren
C: Michael Brewster
RG: Bryant Browning
RT: Jim Cordle
QB: Terrelle Pryor
RB: Boom Herron
TE: Jake Ballard
WRs: Ray Small, DeVier Posey, Dane Sanzenbacher (slot)
In short yardage, Todd Denlinger came in as a second tight end, and Adam Homan (yes, a true freshman) was the first-team fullback.
On defense (which was primarily in nickel, with two LBs and five DBs):
DEs: Thaddeus Gibson, Cameron Heyward
DTs: Doug Worthington, Dexter Larimore
LBs: Etienne Sabino, Austin Spitler
CBs: Chimdi Chekwa, Andre Amos
S: Anderson Russell, Aaron Gant
Nickel: Jermale Hines
It should be noted that Kurt Coleman (starting safety) and Nathan Williams (a key DE) were sitting out with injuries of some sort (it appeared a minor knee thing for Williams), and LB Ross Homan was in pads but I didn't see him take any reps in the team drills.
-- Interesting to me that Mike Adams was the second-team left tackle, behind Miller. Supposedly, those two are rotating pretty freely there.
-- When they played three LBs, Brian Rolle was in the game.
-- Two guys who looked like they could help this offense were Taurian Washington and Jake Stoneburner. Washington has been a forgotten man at receiver recently, but he played a lot today and caught a nice TD pass in which he split Nate Oliver and C.J. Barnett down the middle. Stoneburner could be a real mismatch as an athletic tight end, maybe in the mold of a Dustin Keller from Purdue or Travis Beckum of Wisconsin.
-- A player to watch on defense: DB Ohrian Johnson. He was with the first team at times in the nickel, with Chekwa-Amos-Hines-Russell. He flashed to me.
-- Posey got open deep downfield several times, but once Russell broke up the pass, and another time, Pryor laid the ball out perfectly down the left sideline -- great spiral, maybe a 50-yard pass, but Posey short-armed it and it was incomplete.
-- Speaking of Pryor, he still looks like he sling-shots the ball. It's weird, the ball sort of comes from behind his ear and is released without the full shoulder rotation...hard to explain. But let me say his passes looked accurate and had zip on them, for the most part.
QBs coach Joe Daniels turned to Pryor at one point and said, "You know what? You're not as bad as you used to be."
-- Sitting out, presumably injured: Coleman, Williams, LB Zach Boren, OL J.B. Shugarts and Connor Smith, DE Keith Wells and DB Jamie Wood.
-- They worked a fair amount on short yardage, third-and-1, fourth-and-1, with a real emphasis on physicality and toughness. A lot of hollering and pad-smacking going on.
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