EMU Football Depth Chart: Week 10/11

After a shortened bye week, EMU will take a midweek road trip to battle Akron.

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Eastern Michigan Football Depth Chart: Week 10/11 at Akron

It’s a bye week, but it’s not traditional.

Instead of two full weeks between games, MACtion begins with just two extra days rest for Eastern Michigan and Akron. EMU will hop on a bus on a Tuesday, travel to Akron for a football game, and, win, lose, or overtime, hop back on the bus to be back in time for class Wednesday morning.

Our television and gambling gods thank everybody for their efforts.

Eastern Michigan lost an important game to Toledo last week, which would’ve put the team in first place for the MAC West race. It could still get there, but it’ll require some dominos outside of EMU’s control to fall in EMU’s favor. What EMU can still control is this: capture its first 3-game win streak of the season.

And it starts with becoming bowl-eligible at Akron.

Eastern Michigan held its team press conference Monday morning and released its weekly depth chart Thursday in its game notes. Please keep in mind that these depth charts are almost never 100% what we see on game days, so expect some hidden changes to be revealed next week.

Previous weekly depth charts: Week 1 vs. Eastern Kentucky | Week 2 at Louisiana-Lafeyette | Week 3 at Arizona State | Week 4 vs. Buffalo | Week 5 vs. UMass | Week 6 at Western Michigan | Week 7 vs. Northern Illinois | Week 8 at Ball State | Week 9 vs. Toledo

Offense

(Note: Players with starts this season in bold)

Quarterback

1. #7 Taylor Powell: Started and split time last week vs. Toledo with Smith. Powell is 102/164 passing (62.2%) for 1,232 yards (7.5 Y/A) with 8 TD, 7 INT.

2. #4 Austin Smith: Smith made his third start of the year last week. Smith passing this year: 52/91 (57.1%), 584 yards (6.4 Y/A), 4 TD, 3 INT; on the ground, Smith has picked up 238 yards on 55 official carries (4.3 avg.) and scored twice.

3. #8 Cam’Ron McCoy

Running back

1. #22 Samson Evans: Evans is tied for the MAC lead with 9 rush TD this season, also has 722 rush yards on 144 carries (5.01 avg.).

2. #28 Jaylon Jackson: For the year, Jackson’s carried the ball 60 times for 292 yards (4.7 avg.), 1 TD. Receiving the ball, he’s caught 11 passes for 106 yards.

3. #27 Darius Boone Jr.

4. #21 Bryson Moss

X-Wide receiver

1. #24 Tanner Knue: Knue leads the team with 425 receiving yards and 5 receiving scores, and is second in receptions (30).

2. #9 Darius Lassiter: Lassiter is the team’s third-leading receiver with 24 catches and 267 yards. He’s scored twice.

Z-Wide receiver

1. #1 Dylan Drummond

2. #17 JB Mitchell III

H-Wide receiver

1. #2 Hassan Beydoun: Beydoun has a team-best 34 catches for 332 yards this year, 3 TD.

2. #16 Kaiden Keefe

Y-Tight end

1. #82 Gunnar Oakes: Oakes has caught 19 passes for 196 yards this year.

2. #83 Jere Getzinger

3. #85 Andreas Paaske

Left tackle

1. #71 Marcellus Johnson

2. #74 Jez Janiver

Left guard

1. #62 Sidy Sow

2. #79 Jimi McAdams IV

Center

1. #76 Richard Bates Jr.

2. #70 Dimitri Douglas

Right guard

1. #63 Mickey Rewolinski

2. #68 Alex Howie: Injured, missed the last three games.

Right tackle

1. #77 Brian Dooley

2. #54 Zack Conti

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Defense

(Note: Players with starts this season in bold)

Defensive end

1. #47 Joseph Zelinsky

2. #52 Carter Evans: Returned to action vs. Toledo after missing two games to injury.

3. #90 Grant Trueman: Returned to action vs. Toledo after missing two games to injury.

Nose tackle

1. #93 Jordan Crawford: Crawford is second on the team with 4.5 TFL made (24 total tackles, 1.5 sacks).

2. #99 Melvin Swindle II

Defensive tackle

1. #94 Peyton Price

2. #91 Dexter Manior

3. #98 Tim Grant-Randall

BULL-Defensive end

1. #4 Jose Ramirez: Ramirez is the team’s leading pass rusher and play disrupter: 12.5 TFL, 8 sacks, 47 total tackles (28 solo, 7 QB hurries, 2 pass breakups, 2 fumbles forced, and one fumble recovery.

2. #95 Mikah Coleman

MIKE-Linebacker

1. #6 Chase Kline

2. #53 Steven Scheidt

3. #41 Justin Jefferson

WILL-Linebacker

1. #19 Joe Sparacio: EMU’s team leader in tackles made (66 total, 28 solo, 3.5 TFL).

2. #44 Luke Cameron

3. #10 Tariq Speights

Cornerback

1. #29 Kempton Shine

2. #33 Keylen Gulley

Cornerback

1. #17 Mark Lee Jr.

2. #15 Joshua Scott: In response to Blake Bogan’s injury vs. Buffalo, Scott has started the last five games at Rover.

DOG-Safety

1. #8 T.J. Peavy: Peavy made his seventh start of the season last week vs. Toledo.

2. #21 Robert Daniel Jr.

3. #20 E.J. Williams

Free safety

1. #16 Cameron Smith: Smith has appeared in every game of the season.

2. #13 Russell Vaden IV: After starting four of the first five games of the season, Vaden hasn’t appeared in the last two games.

3. #27 David Carter Jr.: Carter played in the first five games of the season, but not in the last three.

ROVER-Safety

1. #35 Quentavius Scandrett: Scandrett has made four straight starts at free safety.

2. #7 Brandon Benson: Benson has played in every game of the year, and has made three straight starts at Dog.

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Special Teams

Punter

1. #30 Mitch Tomasek: Tomasek has punted the ball 27 times this year for 1,247 yards (46.2 avg.), long of 63, 6 touchbacks, 1 fair caught, 8 landed inside the 20, and 9 have gone for 50 yards or more.

2. #39 Adam Heston

3. #37 Blake Oschsendorf OR #33 Ryan Kingston

Place kicker

• #35 Jesus Gomez: Gomez is 9/11 on field goal tries this season and 30/30 on PAT kicks. Gomez tied the program record with a 55-yard field goal earlier this season.

• #31 Brady Pohl

Long Snapper

1. #46 Steve Bird

2. #42 Zach Zoglio

Kickoffs

1. #31 Brady Pohl

2. #35 Jesus Gomez

3. #30 Mitch Tomasek OR #37 Blake Oschsendorf OR #39 Adam Heston

Kick returner(s)

1. #28 Jaylon Jackson: Jackson is the nation’s second-leading kick returner with 16 kick returns for 462 yards (28.9 avg.), and 1 TD. His two longest returns of the year have gone for 89 and 87 yards.

2. #2 Hassan Beydoun

3. #1 Dylan Drummond

4. #24 Tanner Knue

Punt returner(s)

1. #1 Dylan Drummond: Drummond has returned 3 punts for 34 yards with a long of 19.

2. #2 Hassan Beydoun: Beydoun has returned 5 punts for 26 yards with a long of 11 yards.

Holder

1. #39 Adam Heston

2. #37 Blake Oscsendorf

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