WR looks like a make us or break us area this year.  It's hard to replace 2 excellent receivers like Brazill and Dunlop.
Currently it looks like Foster and Dovell and Futrell will be the starters.  Look for guys like Bussey and Cochran and Clark to get early looks.  Juco Matt Waters has looked good in practice.  Other receivers like  L. Smith and Ngoumou  and S. Smith are also in the picture.

The intriguing guys are the guys who can be game breakers but aren't necessarily starting....that's not to degrade the big play ability of the starters....but when you look at Ngoumou and Cochran  and Bussey you see loads of potential.  All three have shown the ability to get open deep and it seems catching the ball on a consistent  basis or lack of same will determine their amount of playing time.

If I had to predict one secret weapon it probably would be true freshman Sebastian Smith.  The cb's of a team playing in the D1  Ohio high school championship game are not  exactly chopped liver and Smith scored 2 TD's in that final game.  I've also waited for Bussey to have a breakout game...still waiting.

The second scrimmage is over and the team is probably beginning to work on Penn State game plan  so the coaches have probably decided who their starting WR's will be... 

Since our last posts it sounds like we've had a few guys step up, a few guys who are hurt and one who has left.  

Based on this is it safe to assume Foster, Dovell and Futrell are still penciled in as the starters for Penn State or could some of the others have worked their way into one of those spots (excluding Fosters of course).  (Waters and Cochran seemed to have had pretty good camps from what I've read). 

My gut says it's safer to go with what's been there before and start
1. Foster
2. Futrell
3. Dovell (if he's ready to go)

Maybe bring in Cochran, Bussey and Waters throughout the game...   

Are these guys enough to allow us to redshirt S. Smith and save him for another year?   I hope so. 

I guess what I was saying is that if he was equal too or slightly less ready than the others I mentioned then we would have that extra year of his eligibility.    Not sure playing him as a True Freshman would have any bearing on the calibar of WR's wanting to come to OU though.  Winning on the field, going to bowl games and such would have more weight in my opinion.   But that's just my opinion and I know I have been wrong in the past.. haha...

The good news is it looks like we are not as depleted as we originally feared and that we are talking about the possibilities of Freshman seeing playing time because of his skills and performance. Now that's a good thing..

It's great to be a Bobcat fan now adays.. 

Best of luck to all those WR's as well as the many other young men looking keep the Bobcat winning ways as our number one priority.

   

I loved that quote, especially coming from a former QB. It was one of my two favorite quotes in the videos we have seen preseason. I hope the other WR plan to give him a run for his money, though.

For what it's worth, my other favorite was Eric Herman, next to Daz Patterson, in "Relentless", where he tries to keep a straight face as he says "I make the holes, he runs through them. That's how it works", and he gives Daz a bump, and little 5'6 Daz bumps him right back, and they both are grinning. I'm definitely looking forward to it working exactly as he described.

Per twitter, Sebastian Smith breaks his leg, and so he'll redshirt.

Rough for Mr. Smith.  Disagree about him being the only deep threat.  Coach Dixon has a cupboard full of fine athletes.