EMU Football Depth Chart: Week 7

Eastern Michigan released its weekly depth chart ahead of the Northern Illinois game.

Eastern Michigan Football Depth Chart: Week 7 vs. Northern Illinois

With a 4-2 record on the season and 1-1 in MAC play, Eastern Michigan’s focus is on defending its home turf against the defending MAC Champions. Northern Illinois will come to town Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. kick (TV: CBS Sports Network), and this of course will be a huge test for the Eagles.

If records settled the score, Eastern (4-2) should handle Northern (1-5) no problem, but that’s just not going to be the case. Eastern Michigan has to win games like these to win the MAC West, and now’s its best chance to beat the reigning kings of the conference with (or without?) its returning (or not returning?) starting quarterback.

As always, EMU provided its team depth chart with its weekly game notes. I’ve got the team’s depth chart provided below with some stats and notes on select players.

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

Offense

(Note: Players with starts this season in bold)

Quarterback

1. #7 Taylor Powell: Powell got back on the field against Western Michigan for his first time since the Arizona State game. Powell was 20/30 passing for 293 yards, 3 TD, and his first game of the year without an interception thrown.

2. #4 Austin Smith

3. #8 Cam’Ron McCoy: McCoy made his first appearance for EMU during the WMU game.

Running back

1. #22 Samson Evans: Evans is the MAC’s leading rusher with 630 yards on 116 attempts (5.43 avg.) and is one of four MAC running backs to lead the conference with 6 TD.

2. #28 Jaylon Jackson

3. #27 Darius Boone Jr.

4. #21 Bryson Moss

X-Wide receiver

1. #24 Tanner Knue: Knue, EMU’s leading receiver, did not play last week at Western Michigan.

2. #9 Darius Lassiter: Lassiter is second on the team in receptions (22) and yards (254) with a couple of TDs scored.

Z-Wide receiver

1. #1 Dylan Drummond: Drummond returned to action at Western Michigan and caught a TD pass on the team’s second drive of the game. If Drummond starts vs. NIU, it’ll be his 30th career start for EMU.

2. #17 JB Mitchell III

H-Wide receiver

1. #2 Hassan Beydoun: Beydoun is third on the team in catches (16) and yards (210), and second in receiving TDs (3).

2. #16 Kaiden Keefe

Y-Tight end

1. #82 Gunnar Oakes: Oakes has 12 receptions for 106 yards this season.

2. #83 Jere Getzinger

3. #85 Andreas Paaske

Left tackle

1. #71 Marcellus Johnson

2. #74 Jez Janiver

Left guard

1. #62 Sidy Sow: Sow played in his 50th career game vs. WMU. He’s on pace to make his 49th start this weekend, then his 50th start against Ball State.

2. #63 Mickey Rewolinski: Rewolinski replaced Alex Howie at right guard after the starter’s injury and played the rest of the game.

Center

1. #76 Richard Bates Jr.

2. #70 Dimitri Douglas:

Right guard

1. #68 Alex Howie: Injured in the first drive of the Western Michigan game and did not return that afternoon.

2. #79 Jimi McAdams IV

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. #52 Carter Evans: After not playing vs. UMass, Evans made his second career start at Western Michigan.

2. #90 Grant Trueman

Nose tackle

1. #93 Jordan Crawford

2. #91 Dexter Manior

Defensive tackle

1. #94 Peyton Price

2. #99 Melvin Swindle II

BULL-Defensive end

1. #4 Jose Ramirez: After his program-record-setting, 4-sack performance at Western Michigan, Ramirez is tied for the MAC’s lead at 5 for the year with CMU’s Thomas Incoom. Ramirez has 8.5 TFL, second in the MAC behind Incoom (9).

2. #95 Mikah Coleman

MIKE-Linebacker

1. #6 Chase Kline: Kline is EMU’s leading tackler with 53 made (16 solo, 0.5 TFL).

2. #10 Tariq Speights

WILL-Linebacker

1. #19 Joe Sparacio: Tied for second on the team with 34 tackles (17 solo, 2 TFL) and has 1 pass breakup.

2. #41 Justin Jefferson

Cornerback

1. #29 Kempton Shine: Shine wore #0 for EMU’s defense last week at WMU. Leads the team with 4 pass breakups, has made 19 tackles (14 solo), 1 QB hurry, and 1 fumble forced, which he recovered.

2. #33 Keylen Gulley

3. #5 Korey Hernandez

Cornerback

1. #17 Mark Lee Jr.

2. #15 Joshua Scott

DOG-Safety

1. #8 T.J. Peavy

2. #21 Robert Daniel Jr.

3. #20 E.J. Williams

4. #32 Kendric Nowling

Free safety

1. #27 David Carter Jr.

2. #16 Cameron Smith

ROVER-Safety

1. #35 Quentavius Scandrett

2. #13 Russell Vaden IV

3. #7 Brandon Benson

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Special Teams

Punter

1. #30 Mitch Tomasek

2. #39 Adam Heston

3. #37 Blake Oschsendorf OR #33 Ryan Kingston

Place kicker

• #35 Jesus Gomez: Gomez is 5/6 on field goal tries this season and 24/24 on PAT kicks.

• #31 Brady Pohl

Long Snapper

1. #46 Steve Bird

2. #42 Zach Zoglio

Kickoffs

1. #31 Brady Pohl

2. #34 Jesus Gomez

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

Kick returner(s)

1. #28 Jaylon Jackson: Jackson is one of the nation’s best kick returners with 9 returns for 323 yards, 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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