Arizona has posted its complete roster for the 2024-25 season, and a new addition has a very familiar name.

Liam Lloyd, son of Wildcats coach Tommy Lloyd, has joined the team as a walk-on for his fifth college season. The 6-foot-5 guard comes to Arizona after spending the previous two years at NAU, which followed two seasons at Grand Canyon and means he’ll now be part of three of the state’s four Division I programs.

(No need to mention the one he’s skipped.)

Lloyd is one of three walk-ons added to the roster for 2024-25 along with fellow guards Jackson Francois—son of athletic director Desiree Reed-Francois—and Sven Jopmo. Francois spent two seasons as a walk-on at Missouri, where Reed-Francois was AD before taking the UA job in February, while Jopmo is a native of France who had an unofficial role with Arizona last season.

Also back for 2024-25 is guard Addison Arnold, who was on the team in 2021-22 before spending the past two years on an LDS mission, while guard Grant Weitman has returned for a fifth season after putting his name into the NCAA transfer portal.

All told, the UA roster features 20 players with 11 on scholarship, two below the maximum allowed.

Arizona State football released its depth chart ahead of the team’s season opener, and it shows no surprises based on what was seen in practice leading up to Week 1.

ASU released its depth chart for the season opener versus Wyoming. No surprises based on what we saw in practices. As Kenny Dillingham said, there are a lot of “OR’s” on this depth chart, highlighting a competitive roster pic.twitter.com/PcOzgnaere

— DevilsDigest.com (@DevilsDigest) August 29, 2024

ASU football dons a competitive roster. The depth chart shows that with multiple “ORs” among different positions listed.

Seven of the 11 starting defensive positions have multiple players in consideration. Positions to watch are defensive back and defensive tackle, where the former has five players — Xavion Alford, Shamari Simmons, Cole Martin, Myles Rowser and Kamari Wilson — under consideration for three starting spots.

Defensive back is likely the deepest position on the roster, and defensive coordinator Brian Ward will likely rotate bodies in liberally.

Perhaps the most notable of these “ORs” is shown all throughout the special teams department.

Every single position has multiple players under consideration ahead of a matchup with Wyoming on Saturday. Three different kickers — redshirt sophomore Ian Hershey, redshirt freshman Carston Kieffer and graduate transfer Parker Lewis — are in consideration for kicking duties ahead of Saturday.

The Sun Devils kick off the season on Saturday against Wyoming at 7:30 p.m. MST on FS1.

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The time for projections, discussions, and pontification is almost over as Arizona gets ready to take the field for their season opener against New Mexico on Saturday.

Despite entering a new era in the Big 12 led by new head coach Brent Brennan, there is plenty of optimism the Wildcats can make some noise in Year 1, potentially contending for a conference title and a spot in the College Football Playoff.

Much of that has to do with who is returning on this roster.

Led on offense by Noah Fifita at quarterback, Tetairoa McMillan on the perimeter and Jonah Savaiinaea up front, they also have star cornerback Tacario Davis and others who could emerge as impact players on defense.

The thought behind all the positivity surrounding Arizona is what they were able to accomplish last season, but Brennan has been quick to point out this is a new team in a new year, and all that matters is what they do on the field in 2024.

For the Wildcats to reach the ceiling that some out there have predicted, they are going to need their superstar McMillan on the field.

The preseason All-American missed the spring game after undergoing a procedure on his leg that caused him to be held out of practice early in camp, and to be slowly ramped up into contact drills.

Despite the expectation he would be on the field in Week 1, nothing was official.

Well, Brennan shared the status of McMillan heading into the New Mexico game.

“T-Mac is going to play — come on,” he said with a smile according to Justin Spears of Tucson.com.

Wildcats fans can breathe a sigh of relief now knowing he will be available for action on Saturday. It’s not like there would be an issue in this contest if he wasn’t going to suit up, but it’s still a huge positive the team feels like he is ready to play in this game.

While there is continuity from a player perspective for Arizona, they are still adjusting to their new offensive coordinator Dino Babers who is bringing in a different scheme despite keeping the same verbiage from the previous regime for this campaign.

Having everyone available for game reps against New Mexico and Northern Arizona in the first two weeks gives them an extended ramp up period to work on different things and understand exactly what Babers is looking to do with this group.

Being on the same page and operating at a high level could be the difference between contending this season or not as they take on Kansas State and Utah in games three and four.

So, McMillan will be on the field Saturday, giving the fanbase a first chance to see how this offense might look with Fifita leading the charge in Year 2.