Friday, August 17, 2012

Depth Chart Review....and injury update

So, the "media guide" is out (and has been) and has a preliminary depth chart included in it.  With all the caveats--notably, that we hear there are a lot of close competitions for various positions, so this might very well have changed.  Still, there are a couple of things I think are interesting....




Interesting things:

First, for all the talk of how we are more experienced, this is still not a relatively young team.  There are only 2 seniors on the entire defensive two-deep and 3 on the offensive two-deep.  Tons of juniors though.

Even more interesting is that we have talked on and on about how much more experienced our o-line is, but this depth chart shows that there is at least a possibility of 2 of the 5 starters being r-FR making their first game appearances.  I found that surprising.

We have a punt returner I never heard of before.  Ryan Burbrink (rFR) of DeMatha (yes, that DeMatha) is probably a walk-on.  He was all-state in Maryland in HS.  I found a forum on the Baltimore Sun that referred to him as a "shifty white boy" and even if that is a little inelegant, they seemed surprised that he was not recruited more than he was.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how he does.

Finally, the injury update.  Ronnie Goble, starting DE, has an ankle sprain based on Coach's video on the website yesterday.  It doesn't sound terribly serious and they hope he can be back for Florida.

The Blade has the news today that D-lineman Hunter Maynard has a knee injury and could be lost for the year.  He was expected to be in the rotation on the d-line.  He played as a true FR last year.

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