Regarding players who may burn a year by playing in the next game or the next two games, freshmen who have played in 3 or 4 games so far are Cory McEnroe, Brayden Ross, and Mason Walsh. Cory and Brayden have appeared in 4 games, Walsh 3. These guys have played on special teams, but in addition Cory appears on the depth chart behind Rutchena.

You must be right or else he'd be listed on the depth chart of this weeks game

He did! First game since Cal Poly.
After hearing all through the oreseason that Davis was returning all offensive line starters, idaho was only the second game that they all played.

Early in the season they just listed everyone on the D line
Ike Ikegbu made an appearance against Idaho

He broke his forearm while playing with a broken hand.

Hard to speculate about causes of injuries.
We know about 8 of the 15 season ending injuries. Williams, Nava, Perez, Vargas, Garretson, P.Connors.R.Connors, Bell. About half the injuries either took place in camp, practice, or were unnoticed in the game.

Beyond the guys who are out for the season in the secondary they have had a lot of guys who have been unavailable for games, e.g. Ty Richardson and Trey Carr. Classic depth chart a few games ago has Josiah Allen starting at one secondary position and backing up three more.

Notable that Davis beat two of those teams during their streaks, including a top 4 team on the list.

Montana State has so many blowouts that they develop depth, so they are not playing banged up or exhausted guys.
Davis plays their primary players for more snaps, doesn’t develop depth.
But there were players injured in practice even before the season started.

There are injuries that have never been mentioned.
Hard to tell if a reserve doesn’t play due to coaches decision or injury.

Team has 15 players out for the year according to Plough have to guess on some of them
Reported Injured Totton, Perez, Bell, Razor.
Suspect injured Cravin, Albert Richardson
Still out from last year Carillo.

On the positive side, we have the entire starting defense minus the Connor twins.and entire starting offense except for Nava and Williams.

I recall Plough saId in one of his press conferences a few weeks back that Mercer was also appealing.

That is said to be from Massey, so its based on a web of comparative scores. That is the same percentage that Sagarin gives in line with their 17 point differential prediction..

It was a must win road game against a team whose only FCS loss when starting QB Wood was to undefeated Montana. The game frustrated Davis fans because it potentially could have been a blowout, but it was still a solid win.

Davis already has locked in a position ahead of NAU in my opinion. Davis beat them head to head and even if NAU wins next 2 and Davis loses both, they end up with the same number if losses, the same number of FCS losses, and I think they would choose Davis based on head to head result,

Davis would win out over Sac if Davis wins one of their remaining games or if Idaho beats Sac. If Sac has five losses they are out of consideration. May be an uncomfortable feeling if they lose to Sac, but just a few years ago Davis was passed over after beating Sac.

Idaho coach postgame
idaho was 1-11 on third down, 2-6 on fourth down conversions.

On the much discussed player availability issue, the starters in this game were the starters we started the season with, minus the Connors twins and Winston Williams, and with David Main who wasn’t available at the start if the season. Nava started for the first time since being injured against Cal Poly, but left the game with an injury.

. He said that last week, talking about how they added a shift to disquise a play because they had used that play before in the game. If they are going to shift so much they need an official at practice.

Idaho had 2 losses to FBS teams, two with their starting QB out and a game against Montana, an undefeated team.
Davis doubled their score and would have dominated the game if they eliminated costly penalties, Davis play calling in the red zone was limited by having only one trusted running back.

Totton isn’t a recent injury, he last played at Cal Poly.
In addition to Totton and Colfield, Davis had other sought after freshmen DBs. I somewhere got the impression that a couple of them were injured pre-season. Two three star recruits, JJ Cravin, and Albert Richardson have not played in any games.

For the statistics to mean anything we have to know who is playing. We've had mention of two starting receivers and a running back being injured, and a dire DB situation. If thats true than statistics are for a different team. Up until last week Davis was clearly better defending running plays, one of the lowest yards per carry average in the conference. After last week, they are pretty middling against both run and pass.

I like Davis' chances if we have the players listed in this weeks 2 deep on D. Thats everyone that started the first three games of the season except the Connor twins.