Reed and now Mickens

Not related

These were expected.

Wouldn’t worry too much about the loss of Reed, word is that we are going to replace him with better alternative

I don’t expect Roy to return but I could be wrong.

A few rebuttals to your list:

1. According to most I’ve heard from, Jaquelin Roy is likely headed to the NFL draft. (make no mistake, huge loss)

2. Dashawn Womack will be the primary candidate to replace BJ Ojulari as the “Buck” OLB. The 5* standout will be an early enrollee, and he’s going to push the upper classmen for that starting spot (he’s that good).

Other than that, I agree with your depth chart.
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Takeaways: Based on the situation we’ve laid out here, it will be interesting to see how the staff handles the following:

—>Defensive Tackle (DT) - with the early departure of Roy to the draft, we only have three (3) interior DL with meaningful experience. Beyond that, all we have is two (2) RS-freshman who are unproven at the collegiate level. IMO, gotta get at least one (1) plug-and-play DT from either the HS ranks or txfr. portal.

—>”Buck” OLB & SDE - regardless of Zavier Carter, Desmond Little, & Quency Wiggins’ development, we will have inexperience back ups to our EDGE defenders. Based on what I’ve heard, sounds like they want to add depth w/ an experienced EDGE from the portal

We have plenty DEs we’ll surely live without Mickens , Reed on the other hand was our only DT commit

Yes I expect portal adds and another hs recruit or two

quote:

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SDE
Savion Jones jr
Quency Wiggins so
----Dashawn Womack 6-3 265 fr
——Dylan Carpenter 6-3 250 fr

NT
Jaquelin Roy sr
Jacobian Guillory jr
Bryce Langston so

DT
Maason Smith jr
Mekhi Wingo jr
Tygee Hill so

buck
Zavier Carter jr
Desmond Little sr
----Jaxon Howard 6-4 250 fr

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Yikes. I doubt Roy is coming back.

Gonna need to hit the portal pretty hard

Portal

quote:

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SDE
Savion Jones jr
Quency Wiggins so
----Dashawn Womack 6-3 265 fr
——Dylan Carpenter 6-3 250 fr

NT
Jaquelin Roy sr
Jacobian Guillory jr
Bryce Langston so

DT
Maason Smith jr
Mekhi Wingo jr
Tygee Hill so

buck
Zavier Carter jr
Desmond Little sr
----Jaxon Howard 6-4 250 f

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They are planning to put Womack at Buck according to Shea

Howard is more a SDE

Perkins is to small for what they want at Buck and they need him inside

Wouldn't suprise if Wiggins ends up at 295+ and moves to DT