LOS Angeles – There are a lot of mobile pieces and reconfigurations in football sport, and it is no different for the USC team.
Trojan horses have made adjustments and position changes before spring, especially on the defensive, to better adapt to the skills of certain players and their defensive programs in general.
One of the players who has changed position is the recruit Redsirt Elijah Newby, who went from the second to the defensive.
Newby played the two positions in high school, but entered its first year as a secondary, seeing the action in five games last year.
Going to the defensive line this season, he had to gain weight, just over 30 pounds so far, he said, but will always maintain speed and speed to access the quarter.
The change allows him to be paired with some of the biggest players on the line and opens the defensive game book, leading to more creative packages.
“It definitively presents me a new opportunity and opens our defense generally so that we use me in different ways,” said Newby after Thursday training. “And then some packages twinned with one of these biggest guys, so it’s going to be fun. So being right there and just being able to be myself, I know that we are going to succeed and the defense will succeed.”
Anthony Beavers, a senior of Redshirt, is another player who crossed an exchange of position, although he started to spend security to the secondary a few games last season.
Trojan horses had to strengthen their seconds bodies last year after Eric Gentry was excluded for the season. The veteran has moved to help fill the void and stay there before the 2025 campaign.
The ease to which beavers, Newby and other players can maneuver in different positions testify to the versatility of defense as a whole.
“There are so many people who play in different positions and know the defense,” said Beavers. “We are going to be second -year guys in the defense with the coach (from Anton) Lynn, so I think that the simple fact of being able to connect and play different people with different places. For example, for example (gentry) is able to play everything. Kamari (Ramsay) is able to play different things. ”
While BeaSvers and Newby bring different skills together to their new position groups, they bring more than physical traits.
As one of the older men in the group of secondors, Beavers is based to “keep the room in order”, as he said, and help teach the youngest players how to have good habits of practice.
And Newby ensures that it also brings a little pleasure to the group.
“I always make them smile, even when I was not in the position group. So now that I am in a room with them, they feel like they have made me motivate,” said Newby. “Someone there, even if they have a bad practice, I could be the person to sit there and make him smile. I could tell them a little joke:” Come on, do it “, then we are just going there and attacking together.”
Riley rents runners
Head coach Lincoln Riley said on Thursday that he had been impressed by runners halfway through spring training.
The group presents the new arrivals Eli Sanders and Waymond Jordan, both transfers, recruit Riley Wormley and second year student Bryan Jackson.
“I really like the back room. It’s a good group. These guys work well together,” said Riley. “The coach (Anthony) Jones has done exceptional work with this group and certain skills sets. I think it could be the most effective part we have had in the years we have been here according to what I saw on the field to this point. ”
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
