Last Look Aug. 19 Practice
ND had Media Day and und.com provides clip. So the shakeout and probable starters are detailed below – I’ll skip the DB’s for now outside of Riggs, Redfield and Collingsworth penned to start.
The OL:
- Stanley (78)
- Hegarty (77)
- Martin (72)
- Lombard (74)
- Elmer (79)
The DL :
- Rochell (90)
- Jones (94)
- Day (91)
- Trumbetti (98)
- Blankenship (92)
- Cage (75)
- Utupo (53)
- J Williams (33)
Subs
There is not a lot of experience and if Day gets hurt… Lookout…
ILB’s looks like kinda helter skelter as to who plays where or when. You have Smith, Schmidt and Onawualu who can play, then maybe the 2 injured players Grace and Councell.
You just can’t put your finger on a set group. I just know that almost everybody on team could play.
I do know one thing, the Offense has got to score a lot of points – say about 40 per game. The biggest problem will be opponents that just line up and run the ball. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them and will salivate looking at the small linebackers.
Injuries could unravel all defensive plans and guys like Rabassa just have to play and play well. No real mention of Hounshell DT so I guess he just doesn’t have the strength after 3 shoulder surgeries.
Rice could give us trouble but the real test will be Michigan. We have to roll them not squeak out a win. If we do that and start out 2-0, things will be looking up.