2012 Texas Football Depth Chart Is Out

have heard about cobbs being pseudo nickel but if not him i’d guess it’s turner and not thompson or evans eh?

• Any hope Estelle redshirts? Probably not.
• I thought most of the frosh WR buzz was about Marcus Johnson. And yet he’s behind Sanders. Interesting.
• That lineup at Z receiver is bizarre. 3 very different players. (yes I know they just had to put DJ somewhere…)
• Looks like McFarland wins “biggest camp disappointment”
• Surprised to see Bryant Jackson not only ORed with Harris, but first among “equals”. Again, runs counter to the buzz about Harris. Hopefully this means Bryant has really stepped up.
• And here I was thinking Whaley might be DT #5, pass rush specialist. Silly me.
• Where will Aaron Benson be playing next year?
• I like Turner being groomed for the Vaccaro role, if I’m inferring that properly. He looks like a great athlete who might be able to pull it off.

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Somehow I don’t think that just fell in his lap. Good work, man.

I was expecting Colbert to make the depth chart, but again, I need to remind myself that he is just a freshman.

that’s the most surprising thing to me. 2nd most is Brandon Moore at defensive tackle.

I know we’ll be rotating them all but this is still surprising. It didn’t look like Whaley had quite figured out run-defense in the spring game, in fact I would have thought from that game that Dorsey and Jackson were clearly ahead of Moore and Whaley even if they had lower ceilings.

I’m very curious to see if Whaley and Moore have made “the leap”, if Dorsey and Jackson simply weren’t sharp this fall, or what the case is here.

Not sure what the nickel personnel will look like. Having Thompson and Turner both emerging back there is definitely a good thing. If we bring Vaccaro down into nickel I wonder whether Phillips slides over to Free Safety and Thompson comes in or Phillips stays where he is and Turner comes in. Unknowable without having seen a practice.

Biggest disappointments? I know you covered a lot of that . . .

I say Whaley and Daniels on the + side. McFarland, Harris, Flowers on the minus side.

Not a lot of surprises either way. Best depth chart since 2008, and maybe you have to go back three years before that.

Every starter on the D but one or two will be playing on Sundays as well as several of the back ups. If Ash steps up the only problem is with O line depth. This looks like a Texas HS all star team. If the pass game surprises on the upside I wouldnt be surprised to see this team win every game. The only advantage OU has is Landry Jones.

A lot of times JC transfers don’t make the expected impact. I think it’s because, although talented and experienced, they just haven’t grown up in a school’s system, and that has put them behind other, less talented 3rd year players. Not playing puts them farther behind.

The genius of Snyder is that he doesn’t care. He schedules a couple of patsies and lets the JCs (that he relies so heavily on) learn on the job. By the time conference play starts, they know the school’s system.

It’s encouraging to see Moore and Hawkins listed as starters. Maybe they are so terrific that they know the whole system as well as guys who were here last year, but I’m betting they don’t. I think this is a sign the coaches recognize that if these guys are going to reach their potential here, they have to play right away. That said, I wonder if Hawkins is going to get a little more help in the first game, with H-backs and TEs instructed to clean up any protection snafus.