Taking a look at who we lost and who's replacing them (long)

Aug 26, 2015, 1:37 PM

Offense:

We lost Battle and replaced him with Hyatt. Battle was veteran but he was never fully committed to being the best he could be. Also he had technical issues. Losing him makes out depth at OT non existent. If Hyatt goes down we're in deep deep deep trouble. That being said Hyatt is simply a better player right now then Battle was in terms of work ethic and from a technical standpoint. He moves his feet better, has equal if not better hands. The only thing he lacks is strength. I doubt teams will beat him with a speed rush but I think he'll get beat with bull rushes at times.

Lakip is out for 3 games and the back ups have never kicked under pressure before. This won't hurt us really as we have two cupcakes but Louisville becomes that much tougher I'm not one that is all that fearful of them simple because they lost as much as we did but didn't replace it like we have but you can't understate that we are in their stadium on Thursday at night.

Defense:

Reader is out and with him one of our 2 starters with any significant game time experience. I've heard that we might see him return as soon as the Louisville game but nothing concrete to back that up so I wouldn't hold my breath. Thankfully at least from a talent standpoint we're ok here. Pagano Wilkins, Huggins are more talented then Reader was but they don't have his experience. our two deep at DT is highly talented but not experienced so thankfully the two cupcakes will elp get us ready for the rest of the schedule. If Reader returns then we're golden here. If not then the young bucks wiill have to learn and learn fast.

Ebo is gone and reliable depth at DE left with him. That being said Bryant, Ferrell(should he avoid a RS) and Yeargin all came in at great weights and are naturally more gifted then Ebo was. They just don't have the experience. Still look for these guys to make some serious noise. Again though we can't have any injuries here to Dodd or Lawson especially.

LB is hurting right now. Wiggins is gone but we'll be ok with Blanks and O'Daniel but we have zero proven depth behind Boulware and Goodson. Kendell Jospeh and Jalen Wiliams are talented and in the spring game I heard their names being called more then even Boulware and Goodson's to be honest. Still they haven't seen live bullets yet so we don't know what they will do.

Pretty much the reality of our situation hasn't changed much. The starters will all be ok if not better then the guys that left but there will be growing pains and our depth went from shaky to pretty much non existent in terms of experience. There are only a few guys that can step up and play great under pressure as a freshmen on the big stages. Hopefully we don't have anymore injuries to deal with and the youngsters will grow up quickly.

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Taking a look at who we lost and who's replacing them (long)

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