2017 NCAA Football Season

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Athlon released its preseason PAC 12 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th teams. Utah with 1 offensive player (Uhatafe -OL) on third team, 5 defensive players (Hansen and Lowell 1st, Fitts 2nd, Mokofisi 3rd, Luafatasuaga 4th) and 1 specialist (Wishnowski 1st). No other team with 1 or fewer offensive players. Washington with 6, USC and Stanford both with 5 defensive players.

https://athlonsports.com/college-foo...onference-team.

So, I guess my question is whether there is anyone on the offensive side of the ball with the ability to move into the top 3rd of the league at their position. Absent an injury to one of the 4 NFL bound QB's, I don't think it happens at that QB. RB is a possibility, especially since they list 8 guys. My feeling RB will be a collaborative effort throughout the season due to injuries, ineffectiveness and turnovers. Shyne will be limited early due to his ACL. Moss has the ability but was inconsistent, has injury problems (including spring) and turnover problems. I see the other guys as change-up guys and not every down backs. WR - Singleton could be that guy. TE - Handley if he can stay healthy. Of course WR/TE production assumes that we stick with the plan to throw the ball 35 or so times a game after September. OL - Bolles was an anomaly because he came in with a lot of hype and notoriety. Otherwise I think OL grow into all conference players over the course of years.

Let's hope that the sum of the offensive parts is greater than the individual talent.

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WR - Singleton could be that guy.

I don't think Singleton will be a top WR in this conference. The competition is just too stiff. Top WRs in the Pac-12 are future early draft picks.

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I don't think Singleton will be a top WR in this conference. The competition is just too stiff. Top WRs in the Pac-12 are future early draft picks.

I don't think we have any future NFL WR's on the roster. The only way any WR/TE reaches that level is by sheer volume due to a change in the offense. I don't think the guys listed from WSU are NFL guys. They benefit from the number of balls thrown to them over the course of the season.

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The guys from the 2017 recruiting class are starting to trickle into the program for summer conditioning. I saw posts indicating that both JUCO's Marquise Blair (S) and Jordan Agasiva (OL) graduated from JC. There is also a 6'1" 180 lb. Texas Tech transfer WR named Bronson Boyd, who was dismissed from Tech shortly after enrolling in January 2016. I cannot find anything official on his dismissal, but this is what the rumor mill stated: According to Red Raider Sports, mid-term signee wide receiver Bronson Boyd has been dismissed from the team as of Saturday morning.
The official stance from LAJ’s Don Williams and Texas Tech spokesperson Robert Giovannetti is that they don’t have any information at this time, but according to this Reddit thread, Bronson screwed up royally:

He and Farrar (another early enrollee) were out last night and they got into an argument that turned violent, and Boyd drew a pocket knife and Farrar ended up cut between his lip and his chin. Coaches and police showed quickly to tend to Farrar, who bled a lot but seems to be ok- he was back in the football facility today.
Boyd was kicked out off the team/out of school first thing this morning. For those not keeping track, this was literally Boyd and Farrar’s second weekend at Tech. -____-
Oh and some recruits were with them, so it basically killed our chances at a 3 star CB and a 3 star DE supposedly.

I don’t know any reason not to trust this information from the Reddit thread, but just like anything else, take the information with a grain of salt.

He was a 4 star recruit and the 3rd highest rated recruit in the 2016 Tech recruiting class. He had an offer from the Utes out of HS. He will need to sit this year.