re: Spring Practice info thread.

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1st team O

Wallace
Grant

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FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP

Interesting to see the first team QBs, Rbs, and WRs change but not OL. Tells me they really are rotating the skill guys while they have an early first team OL.

I really want Young to win the RT job over Miller. Young I just think has a much bigger upside.

I wonder how the JUCO guys are fairing so far

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I wonder how the JUCO guys are fairing so far

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Ben Bradley is impressing early.

I see no way that Lawson doesn't get some playing time, barring injury of course, at least as a third down pass rusher. He's got too much talent and explosiveness to sit on the bench.

Vine video of Garner coaching up DL in drill

Blackson is a big man

From War Eagle Extra.



Take it for what it’s worth, but in the one drill I saw involving the entire defense, this was the first unit working together Friday:

Safeties: Jermaine Whitehead, Demetruce McNeal. Cornerbacks: Jonathan Mincy, Chris Davis. Star LB/S: Justin Garrett. Linebackers: Jake Holland, Cassanova McKinzy. Defensive tackles: Gabe Wright, Angelo Blackson. Defensive ends: Dee Ford, Nosa Eguae.

Garrett would be the interesting name to watch there. A potential hybrid linebacker/safety.

Top defensive end recruits Carl Lawson and Elijah Daniel were on hand, closely watching the defensive line drills. I blogged yesterday that J.B. Grimes was my pick for which coach yells the loudest – and he might still be the pick pound-for-pound pick – but defensive line coach Rodney Garner is going to be in those linemen’s ears all spring and summer long.

Well, Grimes does have competition in the little-guy-loud-yeller department from a support staffer. Strength and conditioning coach Ryan Russell has an unmistakable bark.

The Charlie Harbison and Melvin Smith storyline is those two are like brothers. They’re basically twins when they stand 30 yards away opposite each other, leading the same drill, coaching the same techniques to Harbison’s safeties and Smith’s corners.

Take it for what it’s worth, but in the one drill I saw involving the entire offense – which was that two-minute drill with no subbing – this was the first unit working together Friday:

QB Jonathan Wallace, RB Corey Grant, H-back Jay Prosch, WRs Ricardo Louis and Melvin Ray (again, grain of salt, people), TE/slot Brandon Fulse, LT Greg Robinson, LG Jordan Diamond, C Reese Dismukes, RG Chad Slade, RT Patrick Miller.

It appears four-star recruit and redshirt freshman Alex Kozan is getting a look at center, but he’ll need to work on shotgun snaps. A high delivery was tipped by his quarterback, Kiehl Frazier, and tailback Cameron Artis-Payne grabbed it instinctively, which meant the flow of the drill wasn’t interrupted.

A number of players are getting chances to return punts. Quan Bray, Ricardo Louis, Tre Mason and Corey Grant are the usual suspects. Scott Fountain wants a playmaker back there, it might take up until the season begins to find one specifically at that position.

Read more here: LINK

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Elijah Daniel were on hand

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People are forgetting about Elijah Daniel. He was pretty much a consensus top 100ish player and 247 had him as a 5star.

I think a RS is in his future but the kid can ball. If you remember Carl winning all the Southeast Region camps last summer, tha is what Elijah did in the Midwest Region all last summer. He has got some great atheliticsm and size already

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DL: Elijah Daniel, 6-3, 245, Avon (Ind.) Breakdown: Some would say Daniel was the top prospect at the camp after his MVP showing.

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Jason Dufner has got to be one the best Auburn sports products in years. He is up with Charles Barkley in terms of not giving a flying f*** and doing what he wants. Just a little less controversial