Bill Riley projects the 2018 Utah starters:

Offense: QB - Huntley
RB - Moss
T - Barton/Paulo
G - Agasiva/Capra
C - Falemaka
WR - Singleton/Wilson/Covey/Nacua

Defense
DE - Anae/Repp
DT - Fotu/Tonga
LB - Thompson/Barton
S - Hansen/Blair
CB - Blackmon/Johnson/Hughes

There is a lot of experience in that group. I would expect the JUCO DE and LB to both be in the mix to start. I would probably have Simpkins over Covey right now, but that could easily change by August.

Heard Mac talking about the read option and Huntley and Mac said you can adjust your blocking scheme to make the QB handoff to the RB but that Utah doesn't do that. I wish Taylor would do that. My sense is Huntley is selfish and looks to run first. He will need to run less to play more.

Anyway, I am bullish on the Utes in 2018. I don't like a Friday night game after an away game and thought that was something they were going to do away with this year. I wish the bye was a little later in the year. We get an extra week against WSU, Stanford after they play Notre Dame, an extra day for USC, ASU after USC and BYU the last game of the year.

2018 Utah Football Schedule
Aug. 30 (Thur.) Weber State Salt Lake City
Sept. 8 at Northern Illinois DeKalb, Ill.
Sept. 15 Washington* Salt Lake City
Sept. 22 bye
Sept. 29 at Washington State* Pullman, Wash.
Oct. 6 at Stanford* Stanford, Calif.
Oct. 12 (Fri.) Arizona* Salt Lake City
Oct. 20 (hc) USC* Salt Lake City
Oct. 26 (Fri.) at UCLA* Los Angeles
Nov. 3 at Arizona State* Tempe, Ariz.
Nov. 10 Oregon* Salt Lake City
Nov. 17 at Colorado* Boulder, Colo.
Nov. 24 Brigham Young Salt Lake City