Big plays highlight Oregon State's second scrimmage

With spring practice entering the final stanza, the Oregon State football team held their final scrimmage of the spring football season before OSU wraps up spring with the spring game next Saturday. BeaversEdge.com has in-depth coverage of the scrimmage today.

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Below is a sneak peak of Slaughter's scrimmage report

Top performers

(Offense)

Jake Luton: Not surprising, right? As I mentioned earlier, Luton was easily the best quarterback tossing the pigskin today. He looked poised early and often, throwing two deep touchdown passes on post routes to Andre Bodden (45 yards) and Isaiah Hodgins (48 yards). After practice, Gary Andersen wouldn’t speak on whether or not there is a pecking order at QB and if there is a timetable to announcing a starter, but in my opinion today, it’s absolutely Luton’s job to lose. No doubt.

Artavis Pierce: Pierce looked like a man on a mission early and often in the scrimmage today, starting off the scoring by ripping off a 70 touchdown run. Pierce looked like Ryan Nall in the 2015 Civil War, running away from cornerbacks and safeties on his way to paydirt. Pierce has had his reps limited this spring for precautionary reasons, and it was obvious early that he is going to make the reps that he does get meaningful.

Isaiah Hodgins: By far and away, this was the best Hodgins has played in a Beaver uniform. Luton looked for him early and often as he started with the first team, and was a physical beast all over the field. Whether he was showing off the jets on a 48 yard touchdown and running away from Christian Wallace, or juking out defenders on a screen pass, Hodgins looked the part of a big time receiver today.

(Defense)

Jaydon Grant: The redshirt freshman cornerback had started to raise eyebrows around Corvallis over the past week or so with his play in the secondary. Well if you didn’t know about the son of former Portland TrailBlazer Brian Grant, you certainly do now. Grant played extremely well today with a team high two interceptions, and looked right at home in the secondary. Keep an eye on this kid, he is very intelligent on the football field and is very fast as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if he worked his way into the starting lineup opposite of Xavier Crawford.

Christian Wallace: Just like Hodgins, Wallace had his best day as a Beav. Wallace played fast, aggressive, and physical the entire scrimmage. His signature moment was making sure Trevon Bradford wasn’t going to catch a pass by absolutely laying him out. It was a clean hit, but Wallace brought the lumber. Wallace is still growing as a player, but he looked the part of an all-Pac-12 cornerback today.

Elu Aydon: Elu had a very solid day plugging up the middle as the nose tackle today. OSU mainly used two lineman again today, which meant Aydon was going to have to take on 2-3 offensive lineman. With the exception of Pierce’s huge run to open up the scoring, Aydon really led the charge on the D-Line by plugging up the running lanes.

Slaughter also has a full breakdown of who was with the starting offense and defense as well as newsworthy notes and nuggets.