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1 hour ago, ramssuperbowl99 said:

Personally, I don't think he's an NFL player. Maybe he makes a practice squad, but I think we spread it around instead of using him as a number 1.

Yeah, this is where I'm at. I think the #1 target in the passing game is going to be Ferguson because of how inconsistent the WRs are. We saw just how bad they were when Cephus was out in 2018. I personally think Pryor is better than Davis as well. Hoping one of the young guys steps up because I don't trust the RBs going into the season. Only way I do, is if Jalen Berger gets early burn.

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On 9/17/2020 at 7:56 PM, beekay414 said:

@ramssuperbowl99 Now that we have a season to plan for, you got a projected depth chart or a best guess one?

 

@ Northwestern...

And we haven't had public practices, so it's not clear who's working with the 1's or 2's consistently. But just as a guess:

QB: Coan/Mertz, Wolf, DVB

Beaten this to death, but IMO Coan starts the season as the starter. I'd like to think Mertz can beat him out, but with how PC likes to manage games and with how good the rest of the team could be, I think it's Coan. Wolf is the 3rd guy.

RB: Watson, Davis, Guerendo
3rd down RB: Groshek/Berger

This is one of the deeper teams, so pretty much every spot is fluid. This is no change. Groshek is an easy 3rd down RB, PC won't trust Berger with pass protection early in the season as a true freshman. But Berger is too good to keep off the field entirely, so I could see 2 RB sets with both of them to help mitigate the WR losses.

Obviously Watson is the starter, but he's got to take the next step or he's going to get passed. If you told me Berger was the primary RB by Week 5, I could see it.

FB: Stokke/Chenal, Easterling

We loaded.

Receiving TE: Ferguson, Rucci, Dakovich
Blocking TE: Sampson, Cundiff, Large

We loaded.

WR1: Pryor, Dunn, Chimere D.
WR2: Davis, Krumholz

I didn't list Isaac Smith or Devin Chandler, but yeah this is pretty clearly the thinnest group we have. I think Chimere D. could play as a true freshman a bunch, and I could also see Berger lining up in the slot (if Ferguson doesn't) just to improve the production.

I really, really hope we don't see Dunn/Krumholz much, but we will. Davis and Pryor need to block well enough to keep them off the field. I also didn't list him, but Stephen Bracey could be a jet sweep/return specialist ala Cruikshank.

LT: CVL, Brown, Nelson
LG: Lyles, Seltzner/Tippmann
C :Seltzner/Tippmann, Sampson
RG: Bruss, Seltzner/Tippmann
RT: Beach, Wedig, Barton

This should hopefully be the year we start turning the corner back to OL. CVL is the obvious guy at LT even though he didn't play well last year, but I think Brown gets a lot of burn so that he's ready to take over in 2021. In the interior, I think Tippmann and Seltzner are going to be pretty much manning both center and the backup guard spots as the utility guys. I have Beach at RT over Bruss because I think he's a slightly better fit their (and I really like Bruss as a guard), but given how good the blocking TE group is, if PC wants to manage the overall OL, he could move Beach inside to provide more help to the C and have the TE cover Bruss. I also have Sampson listed at C, he's gotten reps there even though he did well as the blocking TE.

I also didn't list the interior OL recruits , but Barrett and Bortollini  are depth all over the interior. I'm not sure which one UW has pegged as a C.

NT: Benton, Williams, Paez
DE: Loudermilk, Henny, Johnson/McDonald
DE: Rand, Mullens, Johnson/McDonald

This is pretty easy.

OLB: Burks, Lyttle, Johnson
MLB: Chenal,  Njongmeta, Zachman
MLB: Sanborn, Reed/Turner
OLB: IGM, Franklin, Herbig

3/4 starters are straightforward, and I go with IGM as the breakout guy. Could easily see a freshman OLB taking a big role here, we're so deep there it's nuts. 

CB: Williams, Wildgoose
CB: Hicks/Melvin, Cone, Lofy
S: Nelson, Wilder
S: Burrell/Pearson, Toler

Hicks would be the favorite, but I think Melvin is the future at one of the CB spots based on the Minnesota game. Williams stepped up at the end of last season so he's the default starter, and Wildgoose/Cone can get time in nickel or in running situtations. I didn't list Engrahm (I'd think he's a slot DB) or Blaylock, but CB is also as deep as I can remember it being at UW. And our starters are about as good as any non-Nick Nelson UW CB tbh.

At S, Nelson should get his job back since Pearson and Burrell can't stop getting thrown out of games for targeting. Wilder is an obvious backup, but I like Toler to get some time as a physical presence there too.

 

This team looks really good, but what is scary to me is what this could look like next year. We're consistently recruiting over better and better players, and it shows up pretty much everywhere except WR right now with all of the losses we had.

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@ramssuperbowl99 Only changes I made on my DC in the OP is that I put Mike Maskalunas as the back-up ILB to Jack Sanborn until we see what Turner and/or Reed can do and I put Madison Cone as the 3rd string FS with Donte Burton as the 3rd CB behind Hicks/Melvin. Just thinking like PC lol.

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Projected Depth Chart
Offense
QB Jack Coan | Graham Mertz
RB Nakia Watson | Garrett Groshek | Julius Davis | Jalen Berger
FB Mason Stokke | John Chenal | Quan Easterling
WR Kendric Pryor | Jack Dunn | Chimere Dike
WR Danny Davis | Adam Krumholz | Stephan Bracey
HB Jake Ferguson | Hayden Rucci
TE Cormac Sampson | Clay Cundiff
LT Cole Van Lanen | Logan Brown
LG Kayden Lyles | Josh Seltzner or Joe Tippmann
Josh Seltzner or Joe Tippmann
RG Logan Bruss | Josh Seltzner or Joe Tippman
RT Tyler Beach | Trey Wedig

Defense
DE Isaiahh Loudermilk | Matt Henningsen
NT Keeanu Benton | Bryson Williams
DT Garrett Rand | Isaiah Mullens
OLB Noah Burks | Spencer Lytle
ILB Leo Chenal | Maema Njongmeta
ILB Jack Sanborn | Mike Maskalunas
OLB Izayah Green-May | Jaylan Franklin
CB Caesar Williams | Rachad Wildgoose
SS Eric Burrell or Reggie Pearson | Titus Toler
FS Scott Nelson | Collin Wilder | Madison Cone
CB Faion Hicks or Semar Melvin | Donte Burton

Special Teams
Collin Larsh | Gavin Meyers or Jack Van Dyke 
Conor Schlichting or Andy Vujnovich
LS Adam Bay | Peter Bowden

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11 minutes ago, beekay414 said:

@ramssuperbowl99 Only changes I made on my DC in the OP is that I put Mike Maskalunas as the back-up ILB to Jack Sanborn until we see what Turner and/or Reed can do and I put Madison Cone as the 3rd string FS with Donte Burton as the 3rd CB behind Hicks/Melvin. Just thinking like PC lol.

I've got, what, probably double the amount of normal slashes? This is far and away the best 2nd and 3rd string team I can remember, so it makes sense that different people are going to have different guys they like.

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Just now, candyman93 said:

So OSU vs Wisconsin round 6473829 in the big ten championship again? I don’t see anybody beating you guys.

Eh, I think we'll drop one, possibly two. No JT23 to bail out the offense and no legit true #1 WR like Cephus. We saw how stale the offense got in 2018 and that was WITH JT23.

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