? Gurus: What's with all the DBs?

[Capt. Tuttle]

Not happy with what we have?
Hedging against attrition?
We were low to begin with?
Changing defense, so we need more?
A combination?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Buy 3, get one free.

 

[PhatOrange]

Numbers. Between this year and next we lose 7 defensive backs. Need to replace them now.

8 Antwan Cordy DB R-Sr. Homestead, Fla. / South Dade
26 Tyrone Perkins DB Sr. Glen Head, N.Y. / Friends Academy

14 Evan Foster DB Jr. West Bloomfield, Mich. / West Bloomfield
16 Carl Jones DB Jr. Twinsburg, Ohio / St. Edward
17 DuWayne Johnson DB R-Jr. Washington, D.C. / H.D. Woodson
3 Christopher Fredrick DB R-Jr. Conley, Ga. / Cedar Grove
18 Scoop Bradshaw DB Jr. Tampa, Fla. / Plant

32 Allen Stritzinger DB So. Detroit, Mich. / De La Salle
11 Devon Clarke DB R-So. Kissimmee, Fla. / Osceola

34 Eric Coley DB R-Fr. Manlius, N.Y. / Fayetteville-Manlius
23 Ifeatu Melifonwu DB R-Fr. South Grafton, Mass. / Grafton

19 Andre Cisco DB Fr. Valley Stream, N.Y. / IMG Academy (Fla.)
20 Cam Jonas DB Fr. West Palm Beach, Fla. / Dwyer
21 Trill Williams DB Fr. Yonkers, N.Y. / Archbishop Stepinac

 

[sutomcat]

Not happy with what we have?
Hedging against attrition?
We were low to begin with?
Changing defense, so we need more?
A combination?

We lost 6 scholarship athletes in the secondary from last season:
Cordell Hudson
Rodney Williams
Daivon Ellison
Juwan Dowels
Devin Butler
Jordan Martin

 

[RF2044]

You can never have enough secondary talent, given the direction of collegiate offensive football schemes.

Man, it is easy to get excited about the breakdown posted above, junior class down. We really have a lot of exciting pieces of the puzzle, and will have year-over-year continuity heading into next season. Competition in the secondary is going to be unbelievably fierce these next two years. As it should be.

 

[blizz]

We're in the same boat on the dline this year.
Slayton this year.
Next year Bear, Coleman, Berry, Robinson, Pickard, Ruff, and Grovsenor.
I'd expect to see a minimum of 2 dts and 2 des this cycle. And I stress minimum.

 

[PhatOrange]

You can never have enough secondary talent, given the direction of collegiate offensive football schemes.

Man, it is easy to get excited about the breakdown posted above, junior class down. We really have a lot of exciting pieces of the puzzle, and will have year-over-year continuity heading into next season. Competition in the secondary is going to be unbelievably fierce these next two years. As it should be.

The whole roster looks like this to that's why it's easy to point to 2019 as 'the year' to really see results.

rough count excluding walkons
24 juniors
17 sophomores
11 redshirt freshman
17 true freshman

 

[Ish88888]

We're in the same boat on the dline this year.
Slayton this year.
Next year Bear, Coleman, Berry, Robinson, Pickard, Ruff, and Grovsenor.
I'd expect to see a minimum of 2 dts and 2 des this cycle. And I stress minimum.

We are building db depth and the talent is improving. The dline has won the depth race. Love, love our dline, think its top 4 in the ACC. Slayton to the show next year but we have athletes ready. The dbs are a year away although i like our corners. These corners, esp. Frederick were solid last year in ball skills.