By Chadd Cripe
ccripe@idahostatesman.com
The Broncos went live during practice Sunday for the first time during fall camp, except the quarterbacks were still off-limits.
Bush Hamdan ran a series with the first-team offense, Kellen Moore ran one with the second team and Drew Hawkins ran one with the third team.
Hamdan’s series ended when senior defensive end Mike T. Williams stripped him from behind and a teammate recovered the fumble.
Moore’s series went a little better, with a big throw down the middle to tight end Tommy Gallarda.
But the highlight came from Hawkins, the freshman walk-on. The offense won the third-team competition when Hawkins faked a hand off and kept around the right end for a 45-yard touchdown.
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The Broncos will have a lot of youth on the defensive line this year.
Redshirt freshman Jarrell Root of Capital High is the third defensive end and grayshirt freshman Shea McClellin of Marsing is the fourth end. Even one of the starters, sophomore Ryan Winterswyk, is young.
At tackle, the Broncos are counting on three seniors — Sean Bingham, Joe Bozikovich and Steven Reveles. After that, however, it’s a run of freshmen — with grayshirt Chase Baker making some noise and redshirt Billy Winn still sidelined with a foot injury.
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For the second straight year, junior quarterback Nick Lomax has put together a solid camp. He just doesn’t make many terrible decisions.
Sophomore Mike Coughlin, meanwhile, has struggled with his decisions and accuracy.
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One player to watch during Monday’s scrimmage: linebacker Daron Mackey. The junior-college transfer has adapted well to the major college level and is a physical player.
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Hamdan
I am really dissapointed in all the love that Hamdan is getting from the Statesman. Its seems a little biased. We have one of the best QB's in BSU history on our team and he is at the same level as Hamdan and challenging him for the starting position, as a FRESHMAN. Thats impressive! Still all the hype is going towards Hamdan. What happened to fair and balanced. All you guys report on is when KM throws a pick and Hamdan throws a TD. But in the same practice KM threw a perfect throw for a TD and BH threw two picks but you dont report those statistic's. Idaho Press Tribune has better fair and balanced coverge on the practices and reports everything. That disapoints me being that the Idaho Statesman should be the one with more coverage on the practices as well as the other QB's KM, MC, NL with all that they do. Not just cover all of the Senoirs good plays and not the bad. It is apparent who the Statsman wants in as QB but alot of the fans disagree. The noise from fridays practice when KM threw a TD was as loud as in a real game on the blue. When BH threw a TD it wasn't even close to as loud. KM has developed in a way that it takes others three seasons too. How about covering KM more and drop the Man Crush on BH.
It's pretty obvious who has the man crush.
I dont think the statesmen or the fans are going to decide who the QB is, so i wouldnt worry.
Hamdan
As much as it is "undecided," recent promotional posters of the BSU football team show Hamdan (only 9 players are shown on the promo, so that's significant). I don't know the other faces well enough to know if the other QB contenders are on there, but all of the other numbers worn by players are not QB numbers (1-19). I know college doesn't adhere to that rule as strictly as the NFL does, so take that with a grain of salt. All I'm saying is, I have to wonder if the decision isn't actually already made on some level? It just seems that way, is all. The dude sure is getting pretty good press for someone who may not be the starter. *shrugs*
I've got nothing against Hamdan, though. Had him in a class once. Pretty cool guy.
They're SENIORS
I've seen the poster and all nine players on it are there because they're members of the senior class. It has nothing to do with who is going to start.
He's on the team and ya gotta photograph SOMEBODY...
They needed people on the actual team. Those with do.
NEXT.
Nampa Press Trib.
Dude, why should the Statesman have better coverage than the Nampa paper??? The Press Trib. has always had good coverage of BSU sports, and more of it than the Statesman.
You're right...
The Statesman and KTVB have the panache and Nampa just reports college sports as a game and not a soap opera about players. If you say it, as I haven't had the chance to read in a long time and I spent 12 years there, then it must be true.
Perhaps it's because NNU actually has a reputation as an ACADEMIC school in Nampa and baseball/basketball are PASTIMES there?