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OFive days away, everyone!! Since the preseason depth chart was released back in July, Dravon Askew-Henry suffered a knee injury and Adam Pankey got caught with a DUI. We knew changes were coming and now they're here.
As expected, Jeremy Tyler is repacing Henry at free safety. Tyler brings some special teams experience from last season and seems to be growing into a starting role.
Tony Matteo will be replacing a suspended Pankey at left guard. Matteo played a lot of minutes at right guard and got the most experience against one of the toughest defensive line units in TCU.
Also, Jovon Durante has been moved to inside receiver. This was also expected and his placement is probably just a formality as the Mountaineers will likely run a four-wide set when necessary.
Other than that, things are mostly the same up front. There is still a battle for Skylar's backup spot, but I can't imagine we'll know who that is until towards the end of the game on Saturday or during the Youngstown State game.
Barring any injuries or suspensions, this is the depth chart for Saturday:
| OFFENSE | ||||||||
| Position | No. | Player | | | No. | Player | | | No. | Player |
| Wide Receiver (X) | 1 |
Shelton Gibson | | | 12 |
Gary Jennings |
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| Left Tackle |
55 |
Yodny Cajuste | | | 74 | Sylvester Townes |
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| Left Guard |
70 | Tony Matteo | | |
56 |
Grant Lingafelter |
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| Center | 65 |
Tyler Orlosky |
| | 79 | Matt Jones | |||
| Right Guard | 62 | Kyle Bosch | | | 71 |
Rob Dowdy |
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| Right Tackle |
77 |
Marcell Lazard |
| | 53 | Colton McKivitz | |||
| Inside Receiver (Y) |
6 |
Daikiel Shorts Jr. | | | 5 | Jovon Durante |
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| Wide Receiver (Z) |
2 | Ka'Raun White | | | 82 | Devonte Mathis | |||
| Quarterback | 3 |
Skyler Howard |
| | 11 | Chris Chugunov |
OR | 16 | William Crest Jr. |
| Tight End |
87 | Stone Wolfley |
| | 88 | Trevon Wesco | |||
| Full Back |
28 |
Elijah Wellman |
| | 47 |
Michael Ferns |
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| Running Back | 7 | Rushel Shell | | | 4 | Kennedy McKoy | OR | 25 | Justin Crawford |
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| DEFENSE | ||||||||
| Position | No. | Player | | | No. | Player | | | No. | Player |
| Defensive End |
97 | Noble Nwachukwu | | | 88 | Adam Shuler II |
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| Nose Tackle |
49 | Darrien Howard |
| | 67 | Alec Shriner | |||
| Defensive End | 95 |
Christian Brown | | | 92 | Jon Lewis | |||
| Spur | 8 |
Kyzir White | | | 18 | Marvin Gross Jr. | |||
| Sam (Strongside) LB |
30 |
Justin Arndt | | | 31 | Zach Sandwisch | |||
| Mike (Middle) LB | 3 |
Al-Rasheed Benton |
| | 44 |
Hodari Christian | |||
| Will (Weakside) LB | 27 |
Sean Walters | | | 28 | David Long |
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| Left Cornerback | 1 | Antonio Crawford | | | 14 | Nana Kyeremeh | |||
| Free Safety | 2 | Jeremy Tyler | | |
16 | Toyous Avery | |||
| BuckSafety | 22 | Jarrod Harper | | | 12 | Khairi Shariff |
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| Right Cornerback | 13 | Rasul Douglas | | | 18 | Maurice Fleming | |||
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| SPECIAL TEAMS | ||||||||
| Position | No. | Player | | | No. | Player | | | No. | Player |
| Kicker | 48 | Mike Molina | | | 86 |
Josh Lambert | |||
| Punter | 15 | Billy Kinney | | | 80 | Jonn Young | |||
| Punt Returns | 12 | Gary Jennings | ||||||
| Kickoff Returns | 1 | Shelton Gibson |
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12 | Gary Jennings | |||
| Long Snapper | 46 |
Nick Meadows | | | 43 |
RC Brunstetter |
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