depth chart
james ross
henry poggi
willie henry
channing stribling
grant perry
2015 utah

Your First Harbaugh Depth Chart Comment Count

Brian

Via a Utah beat writer. I put it in a table. Returning starters are bolded.

Offense
Position First Second Third
QB Jake Rudock OR
Shane Morris		 Alex Malzone OR
Wilton Speight		  
RB De'Veon Smith Derrick Green OR
Ty Isaac		 Karan Higdon OR
Ross Taylor-Douglas
FB Joe Kerridge Sione Houma OR
Henry Poggi		  
TE Jake Butt Khalid Hill OR
AJ Williams		 Ian Bunting
WR Amara Darboh OR
Drake Harris		 Mo Ways  
WR Jehu Chesson OR
Grant Perry		 Brian Cole  
LT Mason Cole Logan Tuley-Tillman  
LG Ben Braden David Dawson  
C Graham Glasgow Patrick Kugler Ben Pliska
RG Kyle Kalis Juwan Bushell-Beatty  
RT Eric Magnuson Blake Bars  

Defense
Position First Second Third
DE Willie Henry Taco Charlton  
NT Ryan Glasgow Maurice Hurst  
DT Chris Wormley OR
Matt Godin		    
BUCK Mario Ojemudia Royce Jenkins-Stone Lawrence Marshall
ILB Desmond Morgan Ben Gedeon Mike McCray
ILB Joe Bolden James Ross  
OLB James Ross Allen Gant  
CB Jourdan Lewis Jeremy Clark  
CB Channing Stribling Brandon Watson  
FS Jarrod Wilson Delano Hill  
SS Jabrill Peppers Dymonte Thomas OR
Wayne Lyons		  

Special Teams
Position First Second Third
K Kenny Allen OR
Kyle Seychel		    
P Kenny Allen OR
Blake O'Neill		    
LS Scott Sypniewski Andrew Robinson  
H Blake O'Neill OR
Jake Rudock		    
KO Kenny Allen OR
Kyle Seychel		    
KR Jehu Chesson OR
Jabrill Peppers		 Grant Perry  
PR Jehu Chesson OR
Jabrill Peppers		 Grant Perry  

Quick react

Uh, what? Part one. Willie Henry, strongside end, with Wormley back at DT. On the one hand, Henry has a lot of grrr arrgh pass rush upside. On the other, I thought he was better suited on the interior than Wormley for the reasons I posted today.

Uh, what? Part two. Channing Stribling is listed as the starter opposite Jourdan Lewis. This is odd for a number of reasons. One: Stribling didn't get a call last year even when Gary Nova was going off on Blake Countess. Two: we have heard nothing about him in about a year. Three: they moved Jeremy Clark to corner, and the assumption was that maybe that was not so much a good sign for Stribling.

If this is real, and all depth charts have to be looked at somewhat skeptically, I'm actually rather happy. Stribling looked about as good as Lewis as a freshman before evaporating.

Okay dot gif. The OR at QB. On the other hand, Smith had enough of the starting RB job that they didn't give him one at one of the most OR-tastic spots on the roster.

Poggi at FB. Weird. 266, reputed to be an inline blocking TE. Expected Hill and Poggi to be flipped. Good that Hill's done enough this fall to catch Harbaugh's eye.

No Drake Johnson. Still recovering from injury.

Grant Perry realness check. Good sign for his jitter and reliability that he's an option on returns.

The sweetest or. OR Drake Harris. I want to believe.

Ross an ILB backup and OLB starter. An indication that he will get snaps in the nickel.

Comments

Leonhall

August 31st, 2015 at 9:21 PM ^

Well the staff clearly likes tall DB's...I liked stribling as a freshman. Yeah, there was the whole PSU debacle but the thing is he was always in the right place, just made a freshman mistake IMO.



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Brick in The Wave

August 31st, 2015 at 9:14 PM ^

My initial thought on seeing Stirbling is that he has benefited more than some from the coaching change. This seems to be the case with a couple of players after coaching changes regardless of who replaced who. I think we saw this with Hoke's first year. Unfortunately the improvement or illusion of it stopped right then and there. I am really starting to realize how bad the last staff was. In my defense I am just starting to sober up after last year.

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still-one

August 31st, 2015 at 7:20 PM ^

I'm not sure if this a point on concern but it looks like none of last years returning starters has been ousted.  Shows how much experience matters.  

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RagingBean

August 31st, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^

Is it possible that Drevo and Harbaugh are just sticking with an odd nomenclature, where Henry's 3-tech is called a DE and Wormley's SDE is called a DT? Seems sort of ...stupid, but it's the best guess I've got.

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Elmer

August 31st, 2015 at 8:53 PM ^

I don't like Peppers as a kick returner.  I wouldn't risk the injury possiblity.  He's too valuable on defense (maybe offense) and as a punt returner.  KIck-offs are too violent.

Am I worrying too much? ...can't help it.

 

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tolmichfan

August 31st, 2015 at 10:06 PM ^

Imo hoke put together a pretty good defense. I'm not that worried if Peppers gets injured again. Last year our defense was extremely young and it was still very good.
In the base defense if peppers does go down hill takes over the starting job at SS, and we don't lose that much. It's when we play nickle him being injured that will hurt, and I suspect thats why Lyons is playing back up safety instead of CB. Pep and Lyons are going to match up against slot receivers.



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