Is Christian Kirk going to play over some of the older guys?

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your guess is as good as mine.

not only will a&m wrs v lsu dbs be fun to watch with kyle allen coming along, but i think with brandon harris maturing, especially by the end of the season, it'll be fun to watch the a&m dbs v lsu wrs.

this season is going to be a good test on how far our depth on defense has come along, coupled with a new scheme/coach.

also interested to see how steele does. he seemed to do a decent job in 07 at bama given the ineptitude of the bama offense that year. so at least i would guess he won't waste talent.

Yeah I said I believe he would be the starting slot receiver, started eating again, and realized you literally said that wasn't what you were interested in knowing lol.

I saw on a depth chart that he was given the nod as a starter. But yall will rotate a lot so figured starting didn't necessarily mean getting a lot of balls thrown his way.

I've watched some youtube stuff on him and he's a flat out baller.

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Pope comes to mind. I looked up his stats from last year and he had a decent SO year with 30 catches. Reynolds of course comes to mind, as he's a stud. I 'm not asking about who will be starting, I'm more referring to who is going to get more balls thrown their way.

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Pope, Speedy and Reynolds are outside receivers and Kirk is inside. They really aren't competing much and how they are used is fairly different.

Kirk is playing the Y which is the spot Malcome Kennedy has occupied the last 2 years and Ryan Swope before that. It's the "high catch" position. Lot of 5-year outs and stick routes. Y-stick is one of our staple plays which is an option to a TB inside zone play or a 5-yard pass to the Y.



The LB in that picture creeped inside before the snap and so Swope ran a 5-yard stop pattern and Manziel drilled it into him after faking the handoff.



This play alone can wrack up 2-3 catches per game for the Y. I think Swope had 6 catches in that '12 Bama game on that play alone. It's essentially an extension of the running game. If the safety doesn't come down in time or he misses the tackle it can be a big play but the goal is to easily pick up 4-5 yards.

Speedy plays the X which is the guy on far left and it's the deep ball position. He'll catch fewer balls but the route tree is much further down the field so his APC should be higher (this is the same position Pope plays). Reynolds plays the Z which is at bottom and is the primary much more often than X. So I guess, yes, expect Kirk to catch far more balls than Speedy did last year.

Interesting. So Kirk is a "yards after catch" kinda player for yall?

Film I watched was really just routes and drills. He pretty physical?

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Weren't we playing RSJ "out of position" last year? He's supposed to be the Z but we played him as a Y? Was that the deal?

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RSJ played Y as a fish and H as a redshirt fish. He'll play H this year. We like him inside where he plays kind of a hybrid TE role with his big body.

I don't think he'll ever play Z for us but yeah, I do think that was the initial thought when we brough him in. Ratley is competing with Nacho for 2nd team Z

Yall have no shortage at WR. It's pretty unreal, actually.

Speaking of RSJ, any word out of camp about whether he's been more physical?