The newest non-contact green jersey player was Christian Westerman. I believe it’s an arm injury, but appears to be minor in nature and could be back to full contact as early as Wednesday. Stephon McCray replaced him in the starting lineup.
James Johnson who suffered a shoulder injury yesterday was back on the field wearing his PT42 jersey but did line up on the second team. Armand Perry replaced him in the starting lineup.
Antonio Longino had an undisclosed injury which kept out of most of practice. We’ll see if he fully practices tonight, let alone rest of the week.
Jay Jay Wilson still wearing the green jersey but did appear to do a little more today than the last few days, so looks like he could be back to full contact sooner rather than later.
Fred Gammage and Laiu Moekiola were still out, and were replaced by Tim White and Marcus Ball respectively.
Another depth chart change I tweeted out earlier and posted, was the move of D.J. Calhoun to Devil. Generally did an OK job there both in team sessions and one on one’s. His speed and quickness naturally jump at you, but even though he gained weight and is now 225 lbs. that is still not the ideal weight to play at for this role. So the experimentation will continue there.
Christian Sam and Salamo Fiso were on the field together often as a MIKE and SAM linebackers. Another thing that was different was playing DeAndre Scott at a Devil like linebacker role. Only differences on second team defense were Renell Wren at nose tackle, and with Calhoun and Ball playing on the fist team Chad Adams and Khaylan Thomas were at linebacker.
Offensively, we saw D.J. Foster and Devin Lucien alternating at the 9-receiver, and De'Chavon Hayes continuing to get a lot of reps at wide receiver. Ballage was on offense today taking quite a few snaps at wide receiver as well. Brady White started out at second team quarterback. No other changes jumped out at second team offense.
With goal line situations and short yardage being today’s theme, this was easily the most physical camp practice to date. Demario Richard set the tone early, albeit just during regular ream period, coming close to leveling Armand Perry on a rush, and a play later catching the ball and leveling Marcus Ball. Richard had some good runs later, especially off of the left side, but those were the two most impressive. As a whole the running backs did well in early practice segments but the tide shifted towards the end.
Passing game in team segment was somewhat quiet aside from the 50 yards or so pass I tweeted out that Bercovici had to Hayes with Perry in coverage and later Bercovici was intercepted by Fiso. I thought Kweishi Brown was outstanding. Becoming more and more of a sure tackler to complete his quickness and instincts. Rarely gets beat and when he isn’t stopping you for a very short gain he comes up with a pass breakup. It looks more and more as if the fierce competition many of us expected to take place between him and Solomon Means for starting duties may never happened and that isn’t an indictment on Means.
Hayes is looking more and more as the dangerous weapon we expected him to be. Foster (both running and receiving) and Lucien both had a strong day, tight end Raymond Epps flashed a few times today in short yardage receiving plays.
The run defense would get their say after those aforementioned big run plays. They easily had more than a dozen tackles for loss, many of them coming on goal line situations. Tashon Smallwood, JoJo Wicker, Christian Sam, D.J. Calhoun were stuffing the run game snap after snap, and when the offense scored on a short touchdown pass from Wilkins to Raymond Epps, they received mocking applause from the defense who knew that the offense could not score on them on the ground. True freshman linebacker Khaylan Thomas had his best session of fall camp and posted a couple of TFL’s. Carlos Mendoza certainly did his part in the run defense today.
As I tweeted out earlier Jason Lewis is now cleared academically, and did observe this morning’s practice. Will practice with no pads tonight and tomorrow, which means he will be in pads the first Camp T practice on Wednesday.
Former NFL kicker Jay Feely was at practice.
As always, please post your questions here.
James Johnson who suffered a shoulder injury yesterday was back on the field wearing his PT42 jersey but did line up on the second team. Armand Perry replaced him in the starting lineup.
Antonio Longino had an undisclosed injury which kept out of most of practice. We’ll see if he fully practices tonight, let alone rest of the week.
Jay Jay Wilson still wearing the green jersey but did appear to do a little more today than the last few days, so looks like he could be back to full contact sooner rather than later.
Fred Gammage and Laiu Moekiola were still out, and were replaced by Tim White and Marcus Ball respectively.
Another depth chart change I tweeted out earlier and posted, was the move of D.J. Calhoun to Devil. Generally did an OK job there both in team sessions and one on one’s. His speed and quickness naturally jump at you, but even though he gained weight and is now 225 lbs. that is still not the ideal weight to play at for this role. So the experimentation will continue there.
Christian Sam and Salamo Fiso were on the field together often as a MIKE and SAM linebackers. Another thing that was different was playing DeAndre Scott at a Devil like linebacker role. Only differences on second team defense were Renell Wren at nose tackle, and with Calhoun and Ball playing on the fist team Chad Adams and Khaylan Thomas were at linebacker.
Offensively, we saw D.J. Foster and Devin Lucien alternating at the 9-receiver, and De'Chavon Hayes continuing to get a lot of reps at wide receiver. Ballage was on offense today taking quite a few snaps at wide receiver as well. Brady White started out at second team quarterback. No other changes jumped out at second team offense.
With goal line situations and short yardage being today’s theme, this was easily the most physical camp practice to date. Demario Richard set the tone early, albeit just during regular ream period, coming close to leveling Armand Perry on a rush, and a play later catching the ball and leveling Marcus Ball. Richard had some good runs later, especially off of the left side, but those were the two most impressive. As a whole the running backs did well in early practice segments but the tide shifted towards the end.
Passing game in team segment was somewhat quiet aside from the 50 yards or so pass I tweeted out that Bercovici had to Hayes with Perry in coverage and later Bercovici was intercepted by Fiso. I thought Kweishi Brown was outstanding. Becoming more and more of a sure tackler to complete his quickness and instincts. Rarely gets beat and when he isn’t stopping you for a very short gain he comes up with a pass breakup. It looks more and more as if the fierce competition many of us expected to take place between him and Solomon Means for starting duties may never happened and that isn’t an indictment on Means.
Hayes is looking more and more as the dangerous weapon we expected him to be. Foster (both running and receiving) and Lucien both had a strong day, tight end Raymond Epps flashed a few times today in short yardage receiving plays.
The run defense would get their say after those aforementioned big run plays. They easily had more than a dozen tackles for loss, many of them coming on goal line situations. Tashon Smallwood, JoJo Wicker, Christian Sam, D.J. Calhoun were stuffing the run game snap after snap, and when the offense scored on a short touchdown pass from Wilkins to Raymond Epps, they received mocking applause from the defense who knew that the offense could not score on them on the ground. True freshman linebacker Khaylan Thomas had his best session of fall camp and posted a couple of TFL’s. Carlos Mendoza certainly did his part in the run defense today.
As I tweeted out earlier Jason Lewis is now cleared academically, and did observe this morning’s practice. Will practice with no pads tonight and tomorrow, which means he will be in pads the first Camp T practice on Wednesday.
Former NFL kicker Jay Feely was at practice.
As always, please post your questions here.
