A look at our losses:
RS SR DT Joshua Greene - Rated 97 overall. 1st round lock. He had 36 tackles and 11 sacks in a great senior year. 21 sacks in his career. He will be missed.
RS JR DT Mike Smith - rated 94 overall and projected to be drafted in the 3rd round. He had 9 tackles and a sack last year and was a valuable player even without the big stats.
SR LT Alex Harris - Rated 93 overall and projected to go in the 1st. He only gave up 1 sack all year as he had a stellar year.
SR S Jason Dennis - He is a 2 year starter who dominated both years and won the Bednarik and Thorpe this year. He is rated 97 overall and was our rock of the defense. He had 5 interceptions which led the team and also forced a fumble and recovered a fumble. He broke up countless other passes and was one of our leading tacklers with 82. He will be sorely missed. He is a 1st round lock.
RS SR HB Barrett Hoffman - He was a load at 6'2 236 and rated 97 overall. He had a stellar game in the NC to end his great career for us. He waited his time and only got Major PT this year. He did well with it with 206 carries for 1420 yards and 16 rushing TD's. He is projected to go in the 2nd round with a 97 rating.
JR WR Timi Herron is our surprise departure. He is a 91 rated JR who is a true possession receiver. Doesn't have blazing speed but he has the best hands on our team and was our go to guy when I had to have a few yards on a short pass. As a result, he had 44 catches for 582 yards and 4 TD's this year. For his career, he was remarkably consistent with 3 years of around 40 catches. He had 128 catches for 1688 yards and 10 TD's in his career. He is projected to go in the 5th round.
RS Jovon Jones was a guy who I knew would go pro when I got him a few years ago. He is a stud C who is a true workhorse of our OL. He is now rated 96 and will likely be a 6th round pick.
JR RS T Thomas Gore was our surprise departure. He is rated 90 overall and has great size. He will go in the 6th round. He gave up 9 sacks last year and I thought he would come back to improve his stock...
RS SR WR Jonathan Galloway was our most balanced WR and he became our #1 target down the stretch when we needed a pro's pro route run. He was our best route runner and had good hands and speed. He is rated 90 overall and is projected to go in the 7th round. His 1st years he averaged 48 catches but he nearly doubled that this year with 91 catches for 1459 yards and 15 TD's. He will be sorely missed.
CB Jovon Murphy is a SR who is likely to make a squad as an undrafted FA. He is rated 87 overall and had 4 picks this year.
LG George Hughes started all year and was our 2nd best pass blocker. HE is rated 87 overall.
RG Kevin Rogers is rated 84 overall and is a RS SR who is graduating. He gave up 5 sacks this year.
To summarize, we are losing our ENTIRE starting OL.
We are also losing our top two WR's, our top HB, our top S, our top two DT's, and our 3rd CB. We also lost a depth guy at S who decided to transfer to Oregon State.
A lot of losses to make up for but we have lots of talent coming back too
