Week 3 Depth Chart Released: Ben Lauer movin' on up

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Damarius Travis is also listed as an OR with Cedric Thompson at safety. Definitely a surprise to see that.
 


Please to see Hutton and Keise are getting rewarded for hanging in there. Isn't Goodger a Jr?
 

Gopherprof said:
Damarius Travis is also listed as an OR with Cedric Thompson at safety. Definitely a surprise to see that.
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I suspect CT is still the man, but Damarius has looked really good on special teams so I'm not too surprised to see his talent showing up on D too.
 


Who released this, who filled it out? As of Sunday, September 8th Coach Kill was quoted. "I know we’ll play Harbison next week,” Kill said Sunday, “so I’m excited about that to get him back.” Ooops someone didn't include Jamel Harbison in the depth chart.
 

husker70 said:
Who released this, who filled it out? As of Sunday, September 8th Coach Kill was quoted. "I know we’ll play Harbison next week,” Kill said Sunday, “so I’m excited about that to get him back.” Ooops someone didn't include Jamel Harbison in the depth chart.
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Just because a player isn't on the depth chart doesn't mean he won't play at all. Still, I'd temper expectations regarding Harbison right away. On Kill's show today he seemed hesitant to call Harbison a major factor now that he can play.
 


Killjoy said:
I am not sure if you have a question about that but when they use an or between the first two names it means that either one could start.
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Yeah I realize that now, thanks. I spent 5 minutes racking my brain trying to figure out what position OR could possibly refer to.
 





My feeling is that Dahnovan Jones needs to burn a redshirt. We need help at WR and he has shown some ability. I know he's raw and young but right now we have nothing going at that position.
 

Hey JoeDirt, just so you know D. Jones has already burned his red shirt!
 




JoeDirt said:
My feeling is that Dahnovan Jones needs to burn a redshirt. We need help at WR and he has shown some ability. I know he's raw and young but right now we have nothing going at that position.
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Hope you didn't think we were picking on you. Part of Jones's challenge is that he started out at QB at camp and is now at WR, I hope the learning curve is quick at new position - both play book and position.
 



dpodoll68 said:
On the contrary, that is precisely what they are.
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No coach is going to put a kid who is really talented but has been suspended for two games on the depth chart ahead of two guys who have been busting their ass for two weeks. He is coming off disciplinary suspension, their glad to have him back, but it does not mean he immediately beomces the starter. Whatever Kill requires for him to prove he should be playing ahead of those guys, Harbison still has to get that done.
 

Gopherprof said:
Damarius Travis is also listed as an OR with Cedric Thompson at safety. Definitely a surprise to see that.
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Cedric has had almost no impact to date. Surprising. Seemed like he was a player who might take the next step. Great to have this kind of depth. Seemed like in the mason years, we'd be lucky to have 1 dback as good as Travis or Johnson and they are back ups.
 

Section2 said:
Cedric has had almost no impact to date. Surprising. Seemed like he was a player who might take the next step. Great to have this kind of depth. Seemed like in the mason years, we'd be lucky to have 1 dback as good as Travis or Johnson and they are back ups.
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We haven't given up any big plays in the passing game downfield. I'd say he's doing a pretty good job. Good to have depth and competition though.
 

Section2 said:
Cedric has had almost no impact to date. Surprising. Seemed like he was a player who might take the next step. Great to have this kind of depth. Seemed like in the mason years, we'd be lucky to have 1 dback as good as Travis or Johnson and they are back ups.
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Disagree. CT has played very well so far & had a couple monster hits. No, he hasn't returned a fumble for a TD or intercepted a pass but he has played above average football & is solidly the starter. Travis will have his day as the starter (hopefully later rather than sooner) & if he's working hard in practice there's no reason not to throw him a bone & list him as OR on the depth chart.

Ben Lauer is no surprise. He was #3 at LT all along & with Ed Olson officially out for the game he moves to #2 behind Lenk, where presumably he will also be next year.

Harbison will be a main cog in the rotation this week, but after getting his ass in the dog house two weeks in a row they're not going to place him atop the depth chart ahead of upperclassmen who've been doing everything the right way.
 

Section2 said:
Cedric has had almost no impact to date. Surprising. Seemed like he was a player who might take the next step. Great to have this kind of depth. Seemed like in the mason years, we'd be lucky to have 1 dback as good as Travis or Johnson and they are back ups.
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jaymil said:
We haven't given up any big plays in the passing game downfield. I'd say he's doing a pretty good job. Good to have depth and competition though.
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Yeah, Thompson is only 4th on the team in tackles. He should be 1st. And have 7 picks and 15 pass breakups :rolleyes:

He has been very solid. Travis is a natural athlete and is pushing one of our better DBs hard. That is a great thing.
 

highwayman said:
Yeah, Thompson is only 4th on the team in tackles. He should be 1st. And have 7 picks and 15 pass breakups :rolleyes:

He has been very solid. Travis is a natural athlete and is pushing one of our better DBs hard. That is a great thing.
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Claeys was unhappy with someone or more than one, for not doing their job on NMSU's drive before the half. I don't know who it was, but screwing up assignments at LB and Safety killed us last season at Iowa. In this defense blown assignments at Safety or LB = touchdown.
It will not just be about who is the best athlete, but also about who knows the job and executes consistently.
CKill said they have been hard on players this week, and some of the roster changes are probably messages about having higher expectations than we have shown consistently to date.
 

highwayman said:
Yeah, Thompson is only 4th on the team in tackles. He should be 1st. And have 7 picks and 15 pass breakups :rolleyes:

He has been very solid. Travis is a natural athlete and is pushing one of our better DBs hard. That is a great thing.
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He has missed tackles on two occasions I can think of. I know the big hit CRG was talking about. It was a good hit, not great.
I guess I just had very hi hopes for Ced. He looked great in the fall practices. I haven't seen it in games. Brock has looked much better and made some great plays in space. Maybe Ced just hasn't had the opportunities yet. Roll your eyes all you want, being 4th in tackles doesn't disprove my point. There have been a handful of great plays by our defense and they haven't been by #2, all I'm saying.
 


I will say that the walk on program is paying dividends. We have at least 4 kids that came through the program that are part of the 2 deeps on the line of scrimmage.

The walk on program was the lifeblood of Nebraska during the Osborne and devaney era.
 

It can be a big help with o-linemen that have a lot of potential but need to grow a lot. It is hard to take those kids when you don't want more than 15 or 16 Scholarships used on the o-line, yet most of those guys will not play much until they are R-sophs at the earliest. If you give the late developers scholarships, at three per year, you wind up with nine or ten active linemen who should be able to play i.e. the six true freshmen and Rs freshmen normally will not be ready. You can't afford to be wrong with only nine or ten scholarships for guys old enough to play.
 

Starting or being listed on the depth chart isn't important - it is playing time (when the game isn't out of hand) that matters. Folks here read too much into this list that is only published because it must be.
 


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