West Virginia Football – Post-Spring Game Stock Report

You guys know the drill right here: purchase shares (positions) that you just suppose are going to enhance over the course of the season, promote shares that will not. Very simple.

Quarterbacks: Purchase

I really actually appreciated what I noticed from the Mountaineer quarterbacks on Saturday. All three guys made explosive performs, all confirmed the flexibility to run (Nicco’s kinda quick!), and apart from Greene’s interception to Aubrey Burks the choice making appeared sound. Let’s be sincere although – the optimism right here is all centered across the JT Daniels merger. The Mountaineers have gone from possible fielding a backside half quarterback within the Massive 12 to probably having one of many two or three greatest, and it is arduous to not be enthusiastic about that.

Working Backs: Purchase

This inventory would not be the largest money-maker contemplating the lofty expectations (you are shopping for excessive) however it’s positively a protected guess. That is in all probability the very best room we have had right here beneath Neal Brown and would be the single deepest place group on the workforce. All 4 dudes look competent, and every provides one thing somewhat totally different. Numerous potentialities right here.

Huge receivers: Purchase

A buy-low inventory with huge ROI potential. As a latest garden man, I can let you know that dethatching repeatedly is necessary to the sustained well being of your garden. That is how I am serious about what is going on on with our receivers. There are and needs to be issues about depth following all of the portal attrition, however the glass half full spin is that clearing these guys out will give the fellows who caught across the room they should flourish. Both method, all people appears to be having fun with themselves, and Kaden Prather particularly seems to be primed to take a large leap ahead. If he can step ahead into that #1 function then all the things else falls into place. And the way about Preston Fox? We nonetheless want at the very least one of many two JUCO guys to be successful, however this room in a fairly respectable spot for April.

Tight ends: Promote

The SUV room will clearly have a task to play this yr if our offense goes to take a step ahead in direction of respectable, however it’s all unknowns proper now. Perhaps Mike O’Laughlin is not Brendan Ferns 2.0 and will probably be simply high-quality come September. Perhaps CJ Donaldson and/or Corbin Web page get right here and provides us some pop. Perhaps Polendey finally ends up being extra of a menace within the passing recreation than he is anticipated to be. Perhaps one of many dudes on campus (Treylan Davis, Vik Wik) takes an enormous step ahead. However proper now that is wanting like essentially the most lackluster place group on the workforce.

Offensive Line: Purchase

One other protected guess. We’ve 5 starters again from an above common unit plus three new names receiving weekly reward from the teaching workers. We have to see them carry out higher towards higher competitors, however total you need to really feel fairly good right here.

Defensive Line: Tentative Purchase

This might’ve been a simple purchase a number of weeks again, however when your greatest defensive participant decides to switch it clearly adjustments issues for his place group. I nonetheless like the general rotation, however with Mesidor gone the ceiling is objectively decrease. Perhaps it seems to be not that huge of a deal contemplating that inside defensive linemen typically operate as injury sponges in any case, however I really feel like we’d like anyone apart from Dante step up as a recreation wrecker.

Linebackers: Purchase

A textbook case of addition by subtraction. Josh Chandler-Semedo was a stable participant on the Mike, however Lee Kpogba brings far more athleticism and pairing him with Lance Dixon ought to give us far more sideline-to-sideline pop than we had a yr in the past. I believe this group has a a lot greater ceiling than it did a yr in the past.

Secondary: Purchase

The secondary is our crypto, and I am lumping all of them collectively as a result of apart from Charles Woods (who appears locked in at CB1) it feels like nearly all people is getting a glance all over the place. In January when Porter, Fortune, Matthews, and McLeod have been all due again the group appeared like a energy. In February with the latter recovering from a stabbing and the opposite three within the portal it appeared like a weak spot. That volatility would possible be sufficient to make some buyers keep away, however after getting eyes on issues on Saturday and seeing the brand new bodily id in follow – size, velocity, versatility – I really suppose it is a good time to purchase. It is simple to see what the workers’s imaginative and prescient for this secondary is, and I am unable to assist however really feel like there’s a model of it the place they’re an actual energy once more, particularly if the entrance 6 holds up their finish of the discount.

Neal Brown + Mountaineer Nation: BUY

Massive-time purchase right here. I am not telling anyone who’s studying this something they do not already know, however Neal Brown has actually achieved an ideal job since Ahkeem Mesidor determined to re-don the Sorting Hat, and based mostly on the latest grassroots fundraising motion (over $100k in about 48 hours), Mountaineer Nation is all in on the youngsters who need to be right here and put on that outdated gold and blue. Man in the event that they ever begin profitable in a severe method once more this has an opportunity to show into one thing actually particular. It is us towards the world boys, let’s get it.