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Spring Game This Weekend: My Take on the Depth Chart

This weekend Lehigh's Brown/White Spring game will be happening at 11:00 AM at Murray Goodman Stadium. 

Admission is free and it will be Lehigh Nation's first view of what the 2019 Lehigh Mountain Hawk football team will look like.

This spring season has been unusual by Lehigh standards where there have generally been public releases as to how people are doing in regards to moving up and down the depth chart.  With the hiring of new head coach Tom Gilmore, this spring seems to be more about establishing "Gilmore fundamentals" as well as assessing the overall situation.

“The most important thing we are hoping to accomplish in spring ball is to establish good fundamentals in all phases of the game while establishing great work habits,” he told me this week.  “We will install a modest amount of the schemes and try to build confidence in the base portions of the offense, defense and special teams.”


Lehigh Athletics didn't release an official spring prospectus yet, so I thought I'd take a stab at sharing what I think the spring two deep might look like if the official season started today. 

Keep in mind this is only my opinion and what coach Gilmore might have in mind might be different, but this is my best take.  Injured players who will be held out of the spring game are not on my depth chart.

OFFENSE:

QB1: Tyler Monaco, Sr.
QB2: Addison Shoup, Jr.
QB3: Alec Beesmer, So.

RB1: Rashawn Allen, So.
RB2: Evan Chadbourn, Jr.
RB3: Peter Lucas, So.

WR1: Jorge Portorreal, Jr.
WR2: Dev Bibbens, Sr.
WR3: Austin Dambach, So.
WR4: Raymond Falcone, So.
WR5: Matt Jordan, Jr.
WR6: De'Shun Mickens, So.
WR7: Matt Solomon, Jr.

TE1: Alex Snyder, So.
TE2 (emergency): Matt Fest, Jr.

LT1: Chris Fournier, Jr.
LT2: Jan Maciejewski, So.

LG1: Nick Rosen, Sr.
LG2: Ryan Oneidas, Sr.

C1: Matt Fest, Jr.
C2: Justin Gurth, So.

RG1: Justin Gurth, So.
RG2: Calvin Rivera, So.

RT1: Jack Fris, So.
RT2: Alex Motley, Sr.

DEFENSE:

DE1: Colin Nace, Sr. (if able to go)
DE2: Jack Kircher, Jr.
DE3: Michael Lawrencelle, So.
DE4: Nick Markus, So.

DT1: Juwan Morrow, Gr.
DT2: Bartek Rybka, So.
DT3: Jason Dooling, Sr.
DT4: Zac Troxell, Jr.

HAWK1: Davis Maxie, Sr.
HAWK2: Erik Slater, Jr.

OLB1: Jon Seighman, Sr.
OLB2: Nate Norris, Jr.
OLB3: Shane Collins, So.

ILB1: Pete Haffner, Jr.
ILB2: Chase Foley, So.
ILB3: Alon Berkowitz, Jr.

ROV1: Jaylen Floyd, Jr.
ROV2: Divine Buckrham, Jr.

CB1: Marquis Wilson, Sr.
CB2: Tre Neal, Jr.

FS1: Riley O'Neil, Sr.
FS2: Stuart Cundiff, Jr.

SS1: Sam McCloskey, Gr.
SS2: T.J. Rakowsky, So.

SPECIAL TEAMS:

LS: Jack Dean, Jr.

P/K Austin Henning, Sr.

KR1: Jorge Portorreal, Jr.
KR2: Sam McCloskey, 5th

PR1: Jaylen Floyd, Jr.
PR2: Sam McCloskey, 5th

PR2:

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