Isn’t it a little much to expect a player to have a “understanding of the playbook” on day 1 of camp? This is in relation to Carter Vargas. I think its foolish to even publish a position preview at the start of camp, give the new players a bit of time before talking about them. Last year in the offensive line preview they didn’t mention a guy who started the first game.

Jalen Harris is not on the roster, the page for him was deleted.
According to 247 he was our top recruit ever, not that that means much.

They didn’t really burn Jordan Fisher’s redshirt year last year did they??
His fifth game is listed as Northern Arizona where he had no attempts, no receptions. i think the stats are wrong.

Gadget players like Carson Crawford and a host of other high school quarterbacks

What device do you use?
If you have an apple iPhone or iPad it has Apple Pocasts already installed.
If you have a non apple device then you can install the Spotify app.
If either of those apps are installed you can search for the podcast by putting UC Davis Football podcast.
Spotify app for me on a Kindle Fire is both video and audio.

Great to hear your opinions about the last few years.
I hope the listeners caught the distinction that there was only one medical student playing football
[simultaneously. Has anyone else done that ever? The extra Covid year might make it more possible for someone else.
Davis had two football players go on to Medical School in the early 2000 if I recall the time frame correctly both playing defensive line, one to UCSF and one to UCLA. Their playing years overlapped and the first was an inspiration to the second.

Lan Larison is now listed at 215 lbs. That is up from the 199 in the roster prior 2 years.
He weighed 208 in the data from the combine drills prior to last season.

A lot of the players added weight. Some of these guys probably have gained weight over two seasons, as the team is hit or miss in updating the roster.

Even Bearden is now 300 lb. Up from 251
Zach Kennedy is now 275 lb up from 251
Princeton Toki is now 375 lb up from 356

A 2024 freshman defensive lineman Mayo who was 285 on signing day is 320lb.

Davis had two transfers show up at fall camp and both started, Simonson in every game and Shamburger in many. Simonson never got his name in the stats due to confusion on who wore #70.He is the invisible man here after never seeing action at Nebraska.
LB Tattersall and Smalley transferred from Cal and UCLA and each started but didn’t play much in their first year, likely due to injury in Tattersall’s case. Semaj Verner from Boise played frequently last year and is a grad student this season.

No question Meyer is the top.addition.. Not.only was he outstanding at this level, but he plays the position we.need to fill. The LB from Cal may be as good but he hasn't played as much at the higher level.
Wright was apparently someone Plough saw potential in at Boise, and might have had more of a career there if Plough hadn't been fired. He was returning kick-offs.for them too. Now he .ends up here, coincidence..?

Perhaps the best of them just showed up on the roster this week. Four guys who are likely to get some playing time. We had a couple in that category before announced on during signing days.

David Meyer now on Davis Roster
- Graduate transfer (1 year eligibility)
- 6’2 230lbs LB
- All Conference LB
The above info is from David's X account..Roster has him as.a redshirt.junior

2022 video, Plough talks about Cole Wright getting playing time at Boise. Wright is now on the Davis roster.

Ask Plough :
Was he surprised that a few of the offensive assistants he worked with in his prior time here were still around? Most of the assistants are new to him, but he retained a number of them. What are his impressions of the staff?
Is he going to be able to spend some time coaching the QBs? Lots of young QBs being added this year and next.

I think so too. But he has competition, from an Ivy player who had 173 tackles in last two years, not to mention whatever Cal had. Teddye has outstanding athleticism based on his combine tests at Davis, doubt the Princeton guy has that athleticism. Maybe they’ll both play.

i can’t believe they have a stat on how many times a player hit 15 mph.
I think Cal has the perfect template on how to win this game, do what they did last time. Ott had 17 carries for 104 yards more than 2/3 of Cals rushing yards.. (Davis actually had better rushing stats than Cal in that game though). Davis’s defense lost a lot of size with transfers and graduation.
It will be interesting who plays linebacker and how they do. It will be interesting to see if Teddye Buchanan starts or at least plays a lot for Cal. He is not the only all star FCS inside linebacker grad transfer Cal has.

The depth chart is rarely updated during the season, but it is published each week in the game notes., They should put the link to the game notes back into the schedule, as they did prior to last year, instead of hiding it each week in the media center. The audience for the game notes is not just media, and i bet most fans don’t even know the “media center” url exists. Last year one navigated to it via sport, football, team info, more, UC Davis Media Center.

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It was reported by attendees at the spring scrimmage that the second qb after Hastings who played wore #2, which is David Rasor’s number.
Maybe Plough will ditch the quirky tradition Hawkins has of having a depth chart in alphabetical order

Every team has to.deal with transfers but so far Davis has not had highly regarded underclassmen transferring out..Davis' losses.this far have all been graduates..That string will inevitably end but Davis is still likely to be less impacted by transfer losses. Davis guys transferring out have the Covid bonus eligibility they want to use for.a new.experience . That opportunity to graduate and play elsewhere is soon to end.

Idaho has lost a lot of their top players to the portal and graduation, so they’ll likely not be as good.
The best argument to pick them 3rd is that they don’t play Montana and Sac State, two of the top 5 teams. Davis doesn’t play Weber and Northern Arizona,

As far as players on the roster, DrMike reported he heard on a player alumni zoom call that grad student transfer were expected, i assume for this season. But aside from that, I think it is likely that there will be some new names on the team, not announced elsewhere, as there were last season. Davis had two starters last year that were never announced, and who first showed up on the roster when the roster was updated in the summer.

Aside from names, other information in the roster pages is incomplete or wrong. For example:
Simonson and Amone are both listed as not seeing action, both played in multiple games.
Player eligibility year is not listed, all the true freshmen from last year are this year listed as sophomores, no red shirt freshmen.
2024 recruit bios don’t have any info from their previous school, where they historically have listed noteworthy recognition or stats. No one wrote those resume entries this year. Now signing day central just links back to the roster.