With orange clad fans surrounding them in Reser Stadium, the Oregon State football team took part in their final scrimmage of fall camp. The running game was the focal point of the day as nearly every OSU RB got a chance to show what they could do.
Practice Nuggets
-Let’s start with OSU’s first teamers on both sides of the ball:
Offense
Jake Luton-QB, Ryan Nall-RB, Isaiah Hodgins-WR, Trevon Bradford-WR, Jordan Villamin-WR, Noah Togiai-TE,Blake Brandel-LT, Gus Lavaka-LG, Sumner Houston-C, Trent Moore-RG, Fred Lauina-RT
Defense
The first team defense was rotating a ton, so it was hard to gauge an exact first team. But they did show a 3-3-5 look.
Baker Pritchard-LE, Titus Failauga-RE, Kalani Vakameilalo-NT, Bright Ugwoegbu-LB, Andrzej Hughes-Murray-LB, Jonathan Willis-LB, Jay Irvine-CB, Dwayne Williams-Nickel, Xavier Crawford-CB, Jalen Moore-S, Brandon Arnold-S
-We haven’t talked much about the kicking game this fall, because for the most part the Beavers haven’t done much kicking in the portion of practice that the media gets to see. Jordan Choukair was flawless today as a kicker. He connected on field goals of 27, 28 and 48 yards respectively. Given OSU’s kicking woes in the past several seasons, the Beavers could really use a guy who they can really trust to go out there and get them three point. OSU hasn’t had a rock solid kicker in nearly a decade, and perhaps Choukair can be that guy to bring OSU some kicking consistency.
-Both Wesley Payne and Shemar Smith received time with the 1st unit today as the defense was playing musical chairs with multiple personnel groupings. Manase Hungalu was dressed but didn’t participate. My guess is that Andersen didn’t want to risk any sort of injury with their star linebacker. In his absence, multiple guys such as Payne and Smith stepped up and played very well. However, the first unit that’s listed above only had three linebackers today. The Beavers are really fond of having five guys in the secondary and that is why we only saw three LB’s today.
-Jake Luton’s favorite target may have emerged folks. And.. to no one’s surprise it’s tight end Noah Togiai. Luton hit Togiai for a big gain over the middle on a crossing route for the first big pass play of the day. Later he tried to find Togiai in the endzone for a touchdown, but Togiai couldn’t hold on. Despite not getting that touchdown, I think that Luton and Togiai have been some really strong chemistry together.
