Montana State’s Taco Dowler, quarterbacks shine in team’s first scrimmage

BOZEMAN — With 9 of their 15 allotted spring practices within the books, Montana State held its first scrimmage Saturday.

Bobcats head coach Brent Vigen shared that they had been capable of get in about 90 performs throughout their 90-minute scrimmage.

One of many first place teams Vigen talked about was the quarterback room, saying he thought they “threw the ball significantly nicely,” particularly Jordan Reed and Tommy Mellott.

Reed returns to the sphere this spring after lacking the 2022 season with a knee harm that was suffered throughout fall camp. For Mellot, Vigen shared that this offseason has been about strengthening his pocket consciousness.

“I feel for Tommy as he goes by spring and he’s not dwell, that’s clearly an emphasis to not take off and run,” Vigen acknowledged. “I feel his pocket consciousness and talent to hold in there’s persevering with to enhance and we’re doing loads of issues to work on that… I feel each of them actually delivered the ball on the cash, and I’m speaking a handful of performs, however some spectacular throws by each of them.”

On the opposite finish of a few of these throws Saturday morning, Taco Dowler had fairly the day, recording 145 yards and one landing off of 4 catches.

Defensively, the Bobcats are seeing some contemporary faces probably rise on their depth chart.

“We definitely have some actually good returners, however on protection, it’s a lot concerning the guys that haven’t seen the movie that can proceed to fortify our depth that can problem for beginning positions,” Vigen defined. “Linebacker-wise, McCade O’Reilly, Neil Every day, Jace Fitzgerald are guys that basically stick out. These are the kind of guys that want to indicate up and have massive days immediately.”

Nonetheless, the massive information this week was the departure of Jimmy Beal who’s headed to the FBS and can proceed to teach working backs at San Diego State.

Vigen shared this system expects to make a proper announcement about his alternative developing very quickly.

Within the meantime, Montana State solely has six extra practices left on their schedule, with the final one culminating on Saturday, April 22 with the annual Sonny Holland Traditional.