EMU Football Depth Chart: Week 9

Eastern Michigan hosts Toledo Saturday for an important MAC West battle.

Oct 24, 2022

Eastern Michigan Football Depth Chart: Week 9 vs. Toledo

As cliche as it may be, it’s probably true. This Saturday’s home game against Toledo has the MAC West’s lead at stake. If Eastern Michigan beats Toledo, then EMU will have the MAC West’s lead. If EMU loses, then it’s a different story.

Continuing its rollercoaster season, EMU beat Ball State on the road last week 20-16 by winning the turnover battle for the first time. Toledo just turned the ball over six times last week and may or may not be without its starting quarterback, too.

EMU posted its game notes and had its weekly press conference Monday. Below are the published depth charts, along with some notes from me.

Please keep in mind that these depth charts are almost never 100% what we see on gameday. The team doesn’t get its weekly injury reports until Monday afternoons, and things could always change during practice.

Offense

(Note: Players with starts this season in bold)

Quarterback

#7 Taylor Powell: Did not play last week at Ball State.
#4 Austin Smith: Smith made his third start of the year last week. Smith passing this year: 49/84 (58.3%), 569 yards (6.8 Y/A), 4 TD, 3 INT; on the ground, Smith has picked up 218 yards on 49 official carries (4.4 avg.) and scored twice.
#8 Cam’Ron McCoy

Running back

#22 Samson Evans: Evans, still hurt, missed last week’s game at
Ball State.
#28 Jaylon Jackson: Jackson made his third start of the year vs. Ball State. For the year, Jackson’s carried the ball 55 times for 261 yards (4.7 avg.), 1 TD. Receiving the ball, he’s caught 10 passes for 107 yards.
#27 Darius Boone Jr.
#21 Bryson Moss: Moss had his first career rushing touchdown last week at Ball State.

X-Wide receiver

#24 Tanner Knue: Knue leads the team with 386 receiving yards and 5 receiving scores, and is second in receptions (27).
#9 Darius Lassiter: Lassiter is the team’s second-leading receiver with 22 catches and 254 yards. He’s scored twice.

Z-Wide receiver

#1 Dylan Drummond
#17 JB Mitchell III

H-Wide receiver

#2 Hassan Beydoun: Beydoun had 10 catches at Ball State to have the team’s lead with 29 on the year (also: 297 rec. yards, 3 TD).
#16 Kaiden Keefe

Y-Tight end

#82 Gunnar Oakes: Oakes has caught 18 passes for 191 yards this year.
#83 Jere Getzinger
#85 Andreas Paaske

Left tackle

#71 Marcellus Johnson: Johnson played in his 40th career game last week at Ball State.
#74 Jez Janiver

Left guard

#62 Sidy Sow: Sow made his 50th career start for EMU last week.
#79 Jimi McAdams IV

Center

#76 Richard Bates Jr.
#70 Dimitri Douglas

Right guard

#63 Mickey Rewolinski: Rewolinski has made two starts in place of the injured Alex Howie.
#68 Alex Howie: Injured, missed the last two games.

Right tackle

#77 Brian Dooley: The Toledo game will be Dooley’s 45th game played at EMU.
#54 Zack Conti

Defense

(Note: Players with starts this season in bold)

Defensive end

#47 Joseph Zelinsky: Made his first career start vs. Ball State, has played in every game of the season so far.
#52 Carter Evans: Out the last two games.
#90 Grant Trueman: Out the last two games.

Nose tackle

#93 Jordan Crawford: Crawford is second on the team with 4.5 TFL made (24 total tackles, 1.5 sacks).
#99 Melvin Swindle II
#96 Adrian Gonzalez

Defensive tackle

#91 Dexter Manior
#94 Peyton Price
#98 Tim Grant-Randall

BULL-Defensive end

#4 Jose Ramirez: Out last week at Ball State. Ramirez leads the team with 10.5 TFL.
#95 Mikah Coleman: Recorded his first career sack last week.

MIKE-Linebacker

#6 Chase Kline: Out last week at Ball State. Kline is EMU’s leading tackler with 60 made (23 solo, 0.5 TFL).
#53 Steven Scheidt: Started last week at Ball State along the defensive line.
#41 Justin Jefferson

WILL-Linebacker

#19 Joe Sparacio: Led the team with 15 tackles made at Ball State.
#10 Tariq Speights
#44 Luke Cameron

Cornerback

#29 Kempton Shine
#33 Keylen Gulley
#14 Corry Thomas Jr.

Cornerback

#17 Mark Lee Jr.
#15 Joshua Scott: In response to Blake Bogan’s injury vs. Buffalo, Scott has started the last four games at Rover.
#5 Korey Hernandez

DOG-Safety

#8 T.J. Peavy: Started at Mike linebacker last week in place of Chase Kline.
#21 Robert Daniel Jr.
#20 E.J. Williams

Free safety

#13 Russell Vaden IV: After starting four of the first five games of the season, Vaden hasn’t appeared in the last two games.
#27 David Carter Jr.: Carter played in the first five games of the season, but not in the last three
#16 Cameron Smith: Smith has appeared in every game of the season.

ROVER-Safety

#35 Quentavius Scandrett: Scandrett made his first career interception last week at Ball State, and has made three straight starts.
#7 Brandon Benson: Benson has played in every game of the year, and has made two straight starts at Dog.

Special Teams

Punter

#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.
#39 Adam Heston
#37 Blake Oschsendorf OR #33 Ryan Kingston

Place kicker

#35 Jesus Gomez: Gomez is 8/10 on field goal tries this season and 27/27 on PAT kicks. Gomez tied the program record with a 55-yard field goal make last week.
#31 Brady Pohl

Long Snapper

#46 Steve Bird
#42 Zach Zoglio

Kickoffs

#31 Brady Pohl
#35 Jesus Gomez
#30 Mitch Tomasek OR #37 Blake Oschsendorf OR #39 Adam Heston

Kick returner(s)

#28 Jaylon Jackson: Jackson is the nation’s second-leading kick returner with 12 kick returns for 368 yards (30.7 avg.), and 1 TD. His two longest returns of the year have gone for 89 and 87 yards.
#2 Hassan Beydoun
#1 Dylan Drummond
#24 Tanner Knue

Punt returner(s)

#1 Dylan Drummond: Drummond has returned 3 punts for 34 yards with a long of 19.
#2 Hassan Beydoun: Beydoun has returned 5 punts for 26 yards with a long of 11 yards.

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