Depth Chart(s) - Official Depth Chart for Rice posted

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Projecting the Texas depth chart vs. Rice

From the above projections: (injured men in red)

OFFENSE:

QB: Ewers, Murphy, Manning, Wright
RB: Brooks, Baxter, K. Robinson, Blue, Wisner
WR: Mitchell, Cain
WR: J. Whittington, Cook, Niblett
WR: Worthy, Neyor, Moore
TE: Sanders, Helm, Davis, Shannon, Randle
LT: Banks, Kirkland, Goodby
LG: Conner, Hutson, Goram-Welch, Merrill
C: Majors, Robertson, Chatman
RG: Campbell, Umeozulu, Stroh
RT: Jones, Williams, Cojoe


DEFENSE:

Buck: Burke, Tapp, Vasek, Billy Walton
NT: Sweatt, Murphy, Mitchell, Bryant
DT: Collins, Broughton, Carter, Swanson
Jack: Sorrell, Finkley, Bledsoe, Ross
SLB: Blackwell or Hill
Mike: Ford, Bush or Lefau
Will: Gbenda, Blackwell or Hill, Burrell
CB: Brooks, Holmes, Brice
FS: Thompson, Crawford, Roberson, Allen
BS: Catalon, Williams, Taaffee, Turner-Gooden
CB: Watts, Muhammad
STAR: Barron, Guildeau or Jordan, McDonald


KICKING:

PK: Auburn, Stone
KO: Stone, Sanborn
P: Sanborn, Ratliff
Holder: Sanborn
DS: St Louis, Rizzi


RETURNERS;

KR: K. Robinson, J. Whittington, Wisner
PR: Worthy, Cook
 
We're going to need to cross-train some more LBs (if we haven't already).

Hill may start. Lefau will get a lot of playing time, as will Bush (who has done pretty well before).
 
Chop said:
Projecting the Texas depth chart vs. Rice

From the above projections: (injured men in red)

OFFENSE:

QB: Ewers, Murphy, Manning, Wright
RB: Brooks, Baxter, K. Robinson, Blue, Wisner
WR: Mitchell, Cain
WR: J. Whittington, Cook, Niblett
WR: Worthy, Neyor, Moore
TE: Sanders, Helm, Davis, Shannon, Randle
LT: Banks, Kirkland, Goodby
LG: Conner, Hutson, Goram-Welch, Merrill
C: Majors, Robertson, Chatman
RG: Campbell, Umeozulu, Stroh
RT: Jones, Williams, Cojoe


DEFENSE:

Buck: Burke, Tapp, Vasek, Billy Walton
NT: Sweatt, Murphy, Mitchell, Bryant
DT: Collins, Broughton, Carter, Swanson
Jack: Sorrell, Finkley, Bledsoe, Ross
SLB: Blackwell or Hill
Mike: Ford, Bush or Lefau
Will: Gbenda, Blackwell or Hill, Burrell
CB: Brooks, Holmes, Brice
FS: Thompson, Crawford, Roberson, Allen
BS: Catalon, Williams, Taaffee, Turner-Gooden
CB: Watts, Muhammad
STAR: Barron, Guildeau or Jordan, McDonald


KICKING:

PK: Auburn, Stone
KO: Stone, Sanborn
P: Sanborn, Ratliff
Holder: Sanborn
DS: St Louis, Rizzi


RETURNERS;

KR: K. Robinson, J. Whittington, Wisner
PR: Worthy, Cook
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The Front 4 on D looks really stout, 1st and 2nd team.
 
While I think everyone can see "issues" with certain positions, I don't think we've had stronger complete units (especially both sides of the trench) since 2009. To me, it looks like the only problems against Rice will be the ones Sark referred to in the quote. Someone's going to get dehydrated or have a helmet come off during a play, and "next man up" is difficult when people aren't familiar with their role.
 
I do have a concern about Watts. I know he is a beast on short routes or play against the run. But he can be beat on longer routes. Hope the safety will be there to help. His back up, Muhammad, though a true fresh, seems to have the "it" factor from what I have heard. OTH, I do appreciate Watts experience. We'll see how this shakes out.
 
The 1-2 punch of safeties Thompson and Catalon should be tough. It would only be better if there was no targeting rule. Thompson is one of those real hard hitting headhunters UT fields at Safety from time-to-time.

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Those DC's are certainly very different.
1. Watts will probably start at CB, but Holmes will be the guy against pass oriented teams. Watts is good against the run, but got burned a lot by quick receivers.
2. Campbell will start over Hutson, but Hutson will probably be the 1st off the bench at all 3 interior positions in someone goes down. Neto will have something to say about that pretty soon though.
3. Some DC's have Neyor backing up Mitchell, others have Neyor backing up Worthy. I guess we'll wait and see on that.
4. Baxter is definitely the #2 RB. Apparently he's shown good blocking skills already. Blue is weak at blocking.
5. Collins will move out to DE against running teams and it's probably Murphy over Broughton on the inside.
 
If our LBs stay healthy, this could be a sick defense (sick in a good sort of way).

The D front could be the best in over a decade or more.

DBU is back, or close to it.

LBs Ford + Hill/Lefau/Bush could be quite good as a unit -- just nobody get hurt.
 
Here it is, from the Athletic Dept -- the Official Depth Chart for the Rice game

OFFENSE

QB
3 Quinn Ewers (10) 6-2 195 So.-1L Southlake, Texas (Carroll/Ohio State)
6 Maalik Murphy 6-5 238 Fr.-RS Inglewood, Calif. (Junipero Serra)
-or-
16 Arch Manning 6-4 212 Fr.-HS New Orleans, La. (Isidore Newman)

RB
4 CJ Baxter 6-1 218 Fr.-HS Orlando, Fla. (Edgewater)
-or-
24 Jonathon Brooks 6-0 207 So.-1L Hallettsville, Texas (Hallettsville)
7 Keilan Robinson (4) 5-9 188 Sr.-2L Washington, D.C. (St. John’s/Alabama)
23 Jaydon Blue 6-0 191 So.-1L Houston, Texas (Klein Cain)

WR 1
Xavier Worthy (25) 6-1 172 Jr.-2L Fresno, Calif. (Central East)
2 Johntay Cook II 6-0 186 Fr.-HS DeSoto, Texas (DeSoto)

WR
13 Jordan Whittington (16) 6-1 205 Sr.-3L Cuero, Texas (Cuero)
11 DeAndre Moore Jr. 6-0 194 Fr.-HS Anaheim, Calif. (St. John Bosco)
18 Ryan Niblett 5-10 183 Fr.-HS Houston, Texas (Eisenhower)

WR
5 Adonai Mitchell 6-4 196 Jr.-TR Missouri City, Texas (Cane Ridge/Georgia)
8 Casey Cain (3) 6-3 197 So.-1L New Orleans, La. (Warren Easton)
-or-
9 Isaiah Neyor 6-3 215 Sr.-SQ Fort Worth, Texas (Arlington Lamar/Wyoming)

TE 0 Ja’Tavion Sanders (13) 6-4 243 Jr.-2L Denton, Texas (Ryan)
85 Gunnar Helm (4) 6-5 250 Jr.-2L Englewood, Colo. (Cherry Creek)
81 Juan Davis 6-4 219 Jr.-2L Fort Worth, Texas (Everman)

LT
78 Kelvin Banks Jr. (13) 6-4 324 So.-1L Humble, Texas (Summer Creek)
56 Cameron Williams 6-5 369 So.-1L Duncanville, Texas (Duncanville)
74 Trevor Goosby 6-7 285 Fr.-HS Melissa, Texas (Melissa)
75 Jaydon Chatman 6-4 308 Fr.-HS Harker Heights, Texas (Harker Heights)

LG
76 Hayden Conner (13) 6-5 320 Jr.-2L Katy, Texas (Taylor)
80* Malik Agbo 6-4 294 Fr.-RS Federal Way, Wash. (Beamer)
71 Payton Kirkland 6-6 250 Fr.-HS Orlando, Fla. (Dr. Phillips)

C
65 Jake Majors (27) 6-3 315 Jr.-2L Prosper, Texas (Prosper)
62 Connor Robertson 6-4 319 Fr.-RS Austin, Texas (Westlake)
61 Sawyer Goram-Welch 6-4 307 Jr.-1L Longview, Texas (Longview)

RG
52 DJ Campbell 6-3 343 So.-1L Arlington, Texas (Bowie)
-or-
54 Cole Hutson (13) 6-5 318 So.-1L Frisco, Texas (Frisco)
80* Malik Agbo 6-4 294 Fr.-RS Federal Way, Wash. (Beamer)
79 Connor Stroh 6-7 364 Fr.-HS Frisco, Texas (Wakeland)

RT 70 Christian Jones (35) 6-6 321 Sr.-4L* Cyrpress, Texas (Cypress Woods)
56 Cameron Williams 6-5 369 So.-1L Duncanville, Texas (Duncanville)
77 Andre Cojoe 6-6 355 Fr.-HS Grand Prairie, Texas (Mansfield Timberview)
* Malik Agbo wears 80 when lining up at TE in the jumbo package and 67 when playing OL.




DEFENSE

JACK
88 Barryn Sorrell (10) 6-4 261 Jr.-2L New Orleans, La. (Holy Cross)
97 Kristopher Ross 6-2 255 Fr.-RS Houston, Texas (North Shore)
17 J’Mond Tapp 6-3 266 Fr.-RS Donaldsville, La. (Ascension Catholic)

DT
95 Alfred Collins (6) 6-5 317 Sr.-3L Bastrop, Texas (Cedar Creek)
45 Vernon Broughton (1) 6-4 291 Jr.-2L Houston, Texas (Cypress Ridge)

DT
93 T’Vondre Sweat (9) 6-4 362 Sr.-4L* Huntsville, Texas (Huntsville)
94 Jaray Bledsoe 6-4 274 Fr.-RS Marlin, Texas (Marlin)

NT
90 Byron Murphy II (2) 6-1 308 Jr.-2L DeSoto, Texas (DeSoto)
53 Aaron Bryant 6-2 301 Fr.-RS Southaven, Miss. (Southaven)
98 Trill Carter 6-2 300 Sr.-TR Leesburg, Ga. (Crisp County/Minnesota)

END/BUCK
91 Ethan Burke 6-6 257 So.-1L Austin, Texas (Westlake)
1 Justice Finkley 6-2 250 So.-1L Trussville, Ala. (Hewitt-Trussville)
92 Colton Vasek 6-5 242 Fr.-HS Austin, Texas (Westlake)

SLB
43 Jett Bush (1) 6-2 238 Sr.-3L* Houston, Texas (Strake Jesuit)
37 Morice Blackwell Jr. (4) 6-1 208 Jr.-2L Arlington, Texas (Martin)
46 Tausili Akana 6-4 209 Fr.-HS Laie, Hawai’i (Skyridge [Utah])

MLB
41 Jaylan Ford (15) 6-3 242 Sr.-3L Frisco, Texas (Lone Star)
18 Liona Lefau 6-1 227 Fr.-HS Laie, Hawai’i (Kahuku)
51 Marshall Landwehr 6-0 226 Jr.-SQ Dallas, Texas (Highland Park)

WLB
33 David Gbenda (2) 6-0 225 Sr.-3L Katy, Texas (Cinco Ranch)
-or-
0 Anthony Hill Jr. 6-3 234 Fr.-HS Denton, Texas (Denton)

CB
8 Terrence Brooks (3) 6-0 200 So.-1L Little Elm, Texas (Little Elm)
-or-
9 Gavin Holmes 5-11 177 Jr.-TR New Orleans, La. (Archbishop Rummel/Wake Forest)
14 X’Avion Brice 6-1 183 Fr.-RS Arlington, Texas (Seguin)

FS
11 Jalon Catalon 5-10 202 Sr.-TR Mansfield, Texas (Legacy/Arkansas)
21 Kitan Crawford (1) 5-11 200 Sr.-3L Tyler, Texas (John Tyler)
7 BJ Allen Jr. 6-1 205 Fr.-RS Aledo, Texas (Aledo)

BS
28 Jerrin Thompson (20) 6-0 191 Sr.-3L Lufkin, Texas (Lufkin)
16 Michael Taaffe (1) 6-0 189 So.-1L Austin, Texas (Westlake)
2 Derek Williams Jr. 6-2 191 Fr.-HS New Iberia, La. (Westgate)

CB
6 Ryan Watts (13) 6-3 206 Sr.-1L Little Elm, Texas (Little Elm/Ohio State)
5 Malik Muhammad 6-0 181 Fr.-HS DeSoto, Texas (South Oak Cliff)
24 Warren Roberson 6-0 193 Fr.-HS Red Oak, Texas (Red Oak)

STAR
23 Jahdae Barron (11) 5-11 192 Sr.-3L Austin, Texas (Connally)
3 Jaylon Guilbeau (3) 6-0 180 So.-1L Port Arthur, Texas (Memorial)
-or-
4 Austin Jordan 6-0 198 So.-1L Denton, Texas (Ryan)
25 Jelani McDonald 6-2 198 Fr.-HS Waco, Texas (Connally)
 
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- Baxter or Brooks will start at RB

- We could see some formations with 3 bigs on the D-Line at the same time - Sweat, Murphy, and Collins

- Bush will start at one LB

- Hill may start at one LB (Hill or Gbenda)

- Lefau is the 1st backup to Ford at the other LB

- Burke will start
 
I think Coach K is going to have a hard time playing 13 players on defense when the refs are already looking to for anything to throw a flag on Texas for.
 
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