The West Virginia University football program held its annual Gold-Blue Spring Game Saturday afternoon.
Head coach Neal Brown sat with the media following the intersquad scrimmage and gave his evaluation following the conclusion of the spring practice period.Really good day to back in Milan Puskar and he's had a great spring. And so that was impressive and Leighton Bechdel who's been in our program, he's a phenomenal holder., but he had some big balls in front of Pat McAfee. I thought that was pretty cool and he had some big punts today, so happy for him.
These guys that that are stepping into bigger roles. I wanted to have them show our fan base what to expect. It could be new guys like Zae Jennings. He’s a guy that we're really excited about. He showed up today, quite a bit. Maybe it's a guy like Josiah Trotter that redshirted last year and is getting better. Tray Lathan, who’s coming off an injury. A couple offensive linemen, Johnny Williams, Nick Cray, those type of guys that are going to step into increase roles.
On Tuesday of this week, he had a really sharp practice. Thursday, we did like a red zone period, he was really sharp. Today, he was he was he was okay. He wasn't great. He wasn't bad. He missed one hitch. The play that's going to upset him is the one where he could have made the play on the pass. I will say this, those are hard catches because the ball was kind of right over his head but that's the one that he's going to lose sleep over is not catching that touchdown pass.