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.