2022 Virginia Tech Hokies

[Leonardfan]

Since 2005 white starters are 5,5,4,5,6,7,7,7,7,8,7,5,6,5, 5,4 and 6. In 2022 they look to remain at 6 White starters.

QB Grant Wells transfers over from Marshall and by all accounts he was the best QB by a mile in spring practice. Hopefully he can keep the job the next few years as their is a logjam of black quarterbacks behind him.

New head coach Brent Pry takes over caste failure Justin Fuentes. Pry was with PSU for the past 8 years but during that time the Nittany Lions did not produce any White defensive players.

Cole Beck returns to the Hokies football team as a WR after focusing on track for the past few years. Hopefully he can carve out a role on offense and get some draft buzz. Since the NFL is about speed one would think Beck should be highly sought after.

Other players include RB Bryce Duke, WR Stephen Gosnell, WR Luke Bussel, WR Tucker Holloway, ATH/TE Connor Blumrick (former QB - could be Matt Jones lite), OL Jack Hollifield, DL Gunner Givens, DL Maxx Philpott, LB Will Johnson, LB Tyler Matheny (I've seen him listed as S as well in some previews)

Offense
QB Grant Wells
TE Nick Gallo
LT Parker Clements
C Johnny Jordan
RG Jesse Hanson


Defense
LB Dax Hollifield

 

[Leonardfan]

https://techlunchpail.com/blog/2022-virginia-tech-football-fall-camp-preview-running-back

Bryce Duke and Early Playing Time
Bryce Duke is the wild card factor in all this as though he was only a three-star recruit by the services, his high school production is undeniable and makes you scratch your head as to why he was so lowly regarded by the recruiting services.

He was a star at Northern Virginia's Tuscarora HS as he earned the Washington Post's All-Met Player of the Year honors running for 2,852 yards and 36 touchdowns while averaging 9 yards per carry. That's the type of big play potential and proven production that you want in your RB recruit for a recruiting cycle, and is the type of production that rightly has you ignoring recruiting rankings and seeing the high floor at minimum that is likely there.

Duke has the benefit of the fact that he arrived in Blacksburg this spring and has had just as much time to learn the new offense as all of the veteran running backs that surround him. He didn't get a lot of carries in the Spring Game only running for 8 yards on 2 carries, but there's no doubt that the potential is there.

The question that still remains is whether Duke can breakthrough the wall of experience that's ahead of him and put himself in the rotation of backs behind Malachi Thomas? Though the odds are not the highest, Duke definitely has the talent to get in the hunt for important playing time behind Thomas from day 1, and seems certain to play a big role for the Hokies in the future even if it doesn't come till 2023.

 

[Heralded_Defender]

Coleton Beck is an electric, Olympic Trials-tier sprinter. He should find a field somehow.

VT seems to recruit white RBs pretty often compared to others.