Og=ffensive report by Calen Campero
First Team
RT Emmit Bohle
RG Joey Ramos
C Leif Fautanu
LG Sione Finau
LT Isaia Glass
QB Drew Pyne
RB Cam Skattebo
TE Jalin Conyers
TE Messiah Swinson
WR Elijhah Badger
WR Xavier Guillory
RB Tevin White rotated with Skattebo during first-team reps. LG Max Iheanachor rotated Sione Finau with during first-team reps.
Second Team
RT Aaron Frost
RG Cade Briggs
C Ben Bray
LG Sione Finau
LT Bram Walden
QB Trenton Bourguet
RB Decarlos Brooks
TE Bryce Pierre
WR Troy Omeire
WR Jake Smith
WR Gio Sanders (slot)
WR Andre Johnson rotated with Troy Omeire during second-team reps. WR Melquan Stovall rotated with Gio Sanders regularly. RB Kyson Brown rotated with Brooks during second-team reps. TE Ryan Morgan rotated with Pierre during second-team reps. WR’s Max Ware and Shawn Charles also rotated in occasionally with the second team.
Thursday’s practice got going on top of the energy of Kenny Dillingham as while the players were stretching; he was waking everyone up as half of the first week had been completed. Dillingham was making circles around guys promoting getting to work and asking if they were ready to start the day.
As practice began, a major talking point amongst media members was the choice of music that was played during practice. It was very slow tunes, almost resembling whoever was playing music was going through a breakup. The music picked up eventually, but Dillingham would eventually clear the air as he felt players came in very tired. The music played sarcastically to say, “Oh poor me” but he said the eventual music switch also switched the pace of play on the field.
Today’s practice started with some special teams. Kickoff was on the agenda this morning as placekicker Dario Longhetto, put balls in the air, with the starting kickoff team following. Much like punts, Melquan Stovall and Jake Smith were back there receiving kicks. They were along with others, but it looks like these two are the main kick return specialist continuing from spring.
On the other field, the skill position players got the energy back going as their physicality also took a step up today in practice. Receivers and running backs would catch a ball from a quarterback and move upfield. Working in groups, the other receivers or running back without the ball would block three opposing defenders. A little more colliding took fall camp up a step as you got to see bigger bodies like Elijhah Badger or Troy Omeire put a block on some of the veteran defensive backs.
Moving into the tempo period, it was clear the quarterbacks came to work; the first team led by Drew Pyne a lot today had the competition set. Pyne started the day going four-for-four with completions to Jake Smith, Jalin Conyers, Gio Sanders, and Bryce Pierre. Tevin White getting involved with a catch of his own as well. It set the table for Trenton Bourguet.
Bourguet then responded with three straight completions of his own, finding targets like Messiah Swinson, George Hart III, and Shawn Charles. There was an incompletion to Ryan Morgan, but the tempo period was the best we’ve seen thus far in camp.
After tempo, the team went into the individual portion. The skill positions minus receivers moved into more footwork movements. They attacked upfield, ball in hand, jump-cutting out of the way of a rolling medicine ball. They also got hit with bags, as we’ve seen before. Receivers on the opposite side were working more on finishing catches and moving upfield. Both groups would eventually switched.
While running backs ran a variation of routes with the quarterbacks, the tight ends and offensive tackles worked on their relationship in terms of run blocking. Something Saga Tuitele touched on yesterday. The combination group worked on engaging would-be defenders while working upfield. Tight ends coach Jason Mohns delivered plenty of instruction on not being too quick moving upfield.
Continuing with receivers, the entire group split into two. Group one was working on change of direction off cones set in a square. Coach Ra’Shaad Samples harped the guys on having knee drive out of breaks. Badger led this group but still important to note that Jake Smith looks very healthy in drills like this, of course, coming off an injury (foot). The opposite group worked on attacking the ball and breaking down. They were playing red light-green light until reaching the top and catching a ball.
The entire group moved to run routes on air with quarterbacks, which became one of the vocal points for Dillingham at practice. The starting group of Bourguet, Pyne, and Rashada took turns along with others throwing to three receivers running different routes. The back-pylon throw was the most difficult for the bunch, which had Dillingham standing in the spot he wanted, yelling “Give me more!” and “Throw to the spot, not the man!”. The group would religiously emphasize this as Pyne got some balls in the right spot before moving into the team segment.
A crazy amount of rotation in the skill positions had quarterbacks looking at all types of targets while the lineman on the offensive line stayed a little truer to the two-deep were accustomed to. That said, running backs had a little more attention in this first real team portion as Cam Skattebo, Hart III, White, DeCarlos Brooks, and freshman Kyson Brown all somewhere found themselves in the mix first, or second team. Lineman in this portion also looking a bit better, making holes for running backs.
A short special team punt period with more breakdown drills followed with not much changing from past days. Returners, although were receiving kicks from a placekick form, not punts. As seen, kickoff was more of the priority today.
Moving forward towards the ladder half of practice, the 7v7 period was interesting as the quarterback battle was still going, but also some competitive energy that started during team segment was very apparent. Pyne started with a completion and an incompletion. A little after, Bourguet highlighted his time with a nice ball to Pierre and a would-be touchdown to Melquan Stovall. Stovall was having a great practice today. Making plays here and also looking good in a previous 2v2 period. At the end of 7v7, more words were exchanged, especially from the defense, adding to the fine line competitive spirit.
As team followed to somewhat close practice like most days, Pyne, again taking the ropes in more of a red zone team period. Pyne quickly found Xavier Guillory for a touchdown, continuing his great Thursday session. During this period, newcomer defensive back Demetries Ford broke up a Pyne-Badger connection. He exclaimed he would break up the route 1,000 times. Dillingham put the battle gain on center stage where Ford would penalize Badger on another incompletion.
After Pyne connected with Conyers, there was not much noteworthy for Bourguet as running backs stayed involved and he had a failed connect to Swinson. Looks like point Pyne on Thursday, making Friday’s practice one to look out for.
A “Main Event” portion quickly followed, with the starters needing to make a first down or touchdown as they were in the red zone. They failed, although a run by Brooks seemed like the ball reached the line to gain. That was the conclusion of today's practice.
First Team
RT Emmit Bohle
RG Joey Ramos
C Leif Fautanu
LG Sione Finau
LT Isaia Glass
QB Drew Pyne
RB Cam Skattebo
TE Jalin Conyers
TE Messiah Swinson
WR Elijhah Badger
WR Xavier Guillory
RB Tevin White rotated with Skattebo during first-team reps. LG Max Iheanachor rotated Sione Finau with during first-team reps.
Second Team
RT Aaron Frost
RG Cade Briggs
C Ben Bray
LG Sione Finau
LT Bram Walden
QB Trenton Bourguet
RB Decarlos Brooks
TE Bryce Pierre
WR Troy Omeire
WR Jake Smith
WR Gio Sanders (slot)
WR Andre Johnson rotated with Troy Omeire during second-team reps. WR Melquan Stovall rotated with Gio Sanders regularly. RB Kyson Brown rotated with Brooks during second-team reps. TE Ryan Morgan rotated with Pierre during second-team reps. WR’s Max Ware and Shawn Charles also rotated in occasionally with the second team.
Thursday’s practice got going on top of the energy of Kenny Dillingham as while the players were stretching; he was waking everyone up as half of the first week had been completed. Dillingham was making circles around guys promoting getting to work and asking if they were ready to start the day.
As practice began, a major talking point amongst media members was the choice of music that was played during practice. It was very slow tunes, almost resembling whoever was playing music was going through a breakup. The music picked up eventually, but Dillingham would eventually clear the air as he felt players came in very tired. The music played sarcastically to say, “Oh poor me” but he said the eventual music switch also switched the pace of play on the field.
Today’s practice started with some special teams. Kickoff was on the agenda this morning as placekicker Dario Longhetto, put balls in the air, with the starting kickoff team following. Much like punts, Melquan Stovall and Jake Smith were back there receiving kicks. They were along with others, but it looks like these two are the main kick return specialist continuing from spring.
On the other field, the skill position players got the energy back going as their physicality also took a step up today in practice. Receivers and running backs would catch a ball from a quarterback and move upfield. Working in groups, the other receivers or running back without the ball would block three opposing defenders. A little more colliding took fall camp up a step as you got to see bigger bodies like Elijhah Badger or Troy Omeire put a block on some of the veteran defensive backs.
Moving into the tempo period, it was clear the quarterbacks came to work; the first team led by Drew Pyne a lot today had the competition set. Pyne started the day going four-for-four with completions to Jake Smith, Jalin Conyers, Gio Sanders, and Bryce Pierre. Tevin White getting involved with a catch of his own as well. It set the table for Trenton Bourguet.
Bourguet then responded with three straight completions of his own, finding targets like Messiah Swinson, George Hart III, and Shawn Charles. There was an incompletion to Ryan Morgan, but the tempo period was the best we’ve seen thus far in camp.
After tempo, the team went into the individual portion. The skill positions minus receivers moved into more footwork movements. They attacked upfield, ball in hand, jump-cutting out of the way of a rolling medicine ball. They also got hit with bags, as we’ve seen before. Receivers on the opposite side were working more on finishing catches and moving upfield. Both groups would eventually switched.
While running backs ran a variation of routes with the quarterbacks, the tight ends and offensive tackles worked on their relationship in terms of run blocking. Something Saga Tuitele touched on yesterday. The combination group worked on engaging would-be defenders while working upfield. Tight ends coach Jason Mohns delivered plenty of instruction on not being too quick moving upfield.
Continuing with receivers, the entire group split into two. Group one was working on change of direction off cones set in a square. Coach Ra’Shaad Samples harped the guys on having knee drive out of breaks. Badger led this group but still important to note that Jake Smith looks very healthy in drills like this, of course, coming off an injury (foot). The opposite group worked on attacking the ball and breaking down. They were playing red light-green light until reaching the top and catching a ball.
The entire group moved to run routes on air with quarterbacks, which became one of the vocal points for Dillingham at practice. The starting group of Bourguet, Pyne, and Rashada took turns along with others throwing to three receivers running different routes. The back-pylon throw was the most difficult for the bunch, which had Dillingham standing in the spot he wanted, yelling “Give me more!” and “Throw to the spot, not the man!”. The group would religiously emphasize this as Pyne got some balls in the right spot before moving into the team segment.
A crazy amount of rotation in the skill positions had quarterbacks looking at all types of targets while the lineman on the offensive line stayed a little truer to the two-deep were accustomed to. That said, running backs had a little more attention in this first real team portion as Cam Skattebo, Hart III, White, DeCarlos Brooks, and freshman Kyson Brown all somewhere found themselves in the mix first, or second team. Lineman in this portion also looking a bit better, making holes for running backs.
A short special team punt period with more breakdown drills followed with not much changing from past days. Returners, although were receiving kicks from a placekick form, not punts. As seen, kickoff was more of the priority today.
Moving forward towards the ladder half of practice, the 7v7 period was interesting as the quarterback battle was still going, but also some competitive energy that started during team segment was very apparent. Pyne started with a completion and an incompletion. A little after, Bourguet highlighted his time with a nice ball to Pierre and a would-be touchdown to Melquan Stovall. Stovall was having a great practice today. Making plays here and also looking good in a previous 2v2 period. At the end of 7v7, more words were exchanged, especially from the defense, adding to the fine line competitive spirit.
As team followed to somewhat close practice like most days, Pyne, again taking the ropes in more of a red zone team period. Pyne quickly found Xavier Guillory for a touchdown, continuing his great Thursday session. During this period, newcomer defensive back Demetries Ford broke up a Pyne-Badger connection. He exclaimed he would break up the route 1,000 times. Dillingham put the battle gain on center stage where Ford would penalize Badger on another incompletion.
After Pyne connected with Conyers, there was not much noteworthy for Bourguet as running backs stayed involved and he had a failed connect to Swinson. Looks like point Pyne on Thursday, making Friday’s practice one to look out for.
A “Main Event” portion quickly followed, with the starters needing to make a first down or touchdown as they were in the red zone. They failed, although a run by Brooks seemed like the ball reached the line to gain. That was the conclusion of today's practice.
