Spring football is already here. Insane. The Miami Hurricanes are ready to take the field and head coach Al Golden has released the official 2013 spring depth chart, which like the past two years is based on his off-season U-Tough conditioning program.
Players are rewarded for hard work as as witnessed last season and the one before, depth chart changes can be expected throughout spring ball.
Some things that immediately jump off the page:
– Eight players will be held out of spring practice: Thurston Ambrister (LB), Eduardo Clements (RB), Eddie Johnson (LB), Malcolm Lewis (WR), Robert Lockhart Jr. (WR), Shane McDermott (C), David Perry (DL) and Gabe Terry (LB).
Johnson remains suspended indefinitely, while Lewis is recovering from last season’s gruesome ankle injury at Georgia Tech and McDermott played last season with a torn labrum is and recovering.
– Defensive line woes are being addressed with some personnel moves, as former tight end Dyron Dye has been move to second-team defensive end. Dye has been a journeyman the majority of his career at Miami, but was originally recruited as a four-star defensive lineman out of Seminole High in Sanford.
– Some ‘newbies’ already in the mix, linebacker Alex Figueroa and offensive linemen Sonny Odogwu and Hunter Knighton.
OFFENSE
WR
Allen Hurns
Rashawn Scott
LT
Malcolm Bunche
Ereck Flowers
LG
Jonathan Feliciano
Hunter Wells
C
Jared Wheeler
Hunter Knighton
RG
Brandon Linder
Daniel Isidora
RT
Seantrel Henderson
Sonny Odogwu
TE
Clive Walford
Asante Cleveland
FB
Maurice Hagans
QB
Stephen Morris
Ryan Williams
RB
Duke Johnson
Dallas Crawford
Danny Dillard
WR
Phillip Dorsett
Herb Waters
DEFENSE
DE
Anthony Chickillo
Jalen Grimble
DT
Curtis Porter
Earl Moore
DT
Olsen Pierre
Corey King
DE
Shayon Green
Dyron Dye
SLB
Alex Figueroa
Tyriq McCord
MLB
Raphael Kirby
Jimmy Gaines
WLB
Denzel Perryman
Tyrone Cornelius
CB
Ladarius Gunter
Larry Hope
S
Rayshawn Jenkins
Nantambu Akil-Fentress
S
AJ Highsmith
Deon Bush
CB
Tracy Howard
Nate Dortch
SPECIALISTS
P
Matt Goudis
Ricky Carroll -or – Zach Costa
FG
Matt Goudis
Ricky Perez
KO
Matt Goudis
Ricky Perez
H
Ryan Williams
Stephen Morris
LS
Paul Kelly
Sean McNally
SS
Paul Kelly
Brandon Linder
PR
Phillip Dorsett
Duke Johnson
KR
Phillip Dorsett
Duke Johnson