We’re getting to the receiver group, including the tight ends which we will start with this morning.

Terrance Carter, Jr. and Johncarolos Miller II are the front-runners to start and with Miller being a senior, it allows for a good transition with Carter and then eventually Jackson. The problem is that I don’t think that Miller and Carter are truly blocking tight ends. Llewellyn has the size to be a blocking tight end, but I don’t know if he fits the bill. I do recall Joey McGuire saying that Llewellyn is an elite deep snapper, although I don’t know if that’s all he will do or if he will contribute at other players on the field.

I do think the future is Trey Jackson and when I copied this roster in the spring it only had him at 230, but the updated roster has him at 240. It would seem that the staff will target tight end in the upcoming class.

Receiver seems pretty set with Eakin, Douglas and Virgil probably set to start. I think it is interesting that the inside receiver spot is no longer a smaller player, but a pretty decent sized player and Eakin isn’t small at all. Again, notice that we’ve got things set up pretty well with a couple of juniors, and possible Roy Alexander at the inside spot, a senior, and a sophomore in Vaslin.

At the X receiver spot, Virgil seems to be the leader and would guess that Turner is ahead of Stone, but Stone had a terrific spring game, so maybe the inclination is that fans will have him ahead, but Turner was pretty good as a prep player. Again, adding Virgil allows for these players to get one more year under their belt to develop. At the Z receiver spot Douglas is the starter with West as the back-up. I’m pretty sure that’s 1-2. Dever seems like a star in the making eventually. The fact that Stone and Dever have designated positions as true freshmen says something about them and their prospects.

I don’t know where Hudson ends up at the end of the day. There’s opportunity there and he can make an impact, he just needs to be patient. Harrison is likely a tight end at some point at that height, but he’s got a ways to go and he’ll need to fill out.

One thing to consider, which is that the offense was not an offense that went deep. The top 4 receivers didn’t average more than 15 yards a catch, Caleb Douglas averaged 14.62, Eakin averaged 13.31 and Josh Kelly averaged 11.49. Breaking things over the top just wasn’t a thing. Micah Hudson was the only player with over 15 yards a catch, 15.38, but he only had 8 catches so that’s a pretty small sample size.

Reggie Virgil at Miami (Ohio) is maybe supposed to solve some of this, 19.90 yards a catch with 9 touchdowns and Terrance Carter averaged 14.35 yards a catch as a tight end for Louisiana-Lafayette. That’s two guys along with Douglas who I think will go deeper more often than he did last year, the receiver splits outside the hashes which the coaches have mentioned are a feature of the new offense.