I have watched the game through a couple of times so far. Here are my thoughts:
1. AD Mitchell is exactly what Quinn needed. His body control is freaky and he adjusts well to the ball in the air with soft hands.
2. We tend to forget how good Worthy is because of the struggles last season, then we see him running wide open all over the field and I was thinking "Oh yeah, there he is."
3. Aaron Bryant is going to be really valuable in the DL rotation, he just doesn't go backwards very much.
4. Maalik Murphy was excellent, he gave himself a nice cushion heading into the summer for that #2 role.
5. Arch looked like a freshman, but he made good decisions with the ball running for his life behind that line. Maalik got a much cleaner pocket behind the same guys for whatever reason.
6. I found myself very impressed with Conner Stroh. He looks like he can be a guy in that 2 deep if needed next year.
7. Cam Williams has Mike Tyson level punch when he gets his hands on guys. He picked one guy up and threw him a yard or two in the air. He did really well at guard and tackle.
8. Kelvin Banks just erases whoever he is lined up against. Total mismatch.
9. Byron Murphy was showing a little more disruption than last season, but I am still not going to pencil him in for 5 sacks next year.
10. Sorrell, Burke, and Vasek were the three edge guys that stood out. Vasek blew by a tackle on more than one occasion and sacked Arch once that wasnt called. Burke can be a major problem if he stops reading so much and pins his ears back and crashes down. He also recorded a sack on Quinn, but he still gets moved in the run game too much. Finkley looks like a fire hydrant out there but physics is not on his side. Tapp looks either lost or unmotivated. Portal candidate.
11. Loved some of the coverage from the dbs. Brooks, Watts, Barron, Muhammad, and Holmes all had really nice plays.
12. Safety was meh. BJ Allen got abused by Worthy all day.
13. Gbenda looks to be spring ball bluster, he was fine but I don't see him keeping Hill off the field. Hill is just too rangy and gets through the wash much more effectively.
14. Sydir Mitchell is going to be a monster when he grows up.
15. I would not pencil Jake Majors in at starting center yet. His ceiling is just so much lower than the guys around him.
16. Lefau had a couple of nice plays, but he needs some more time.
17. Deandre Moore had a tough day, but I am still excited about him. Johntay was really good, but his long TD catch was against a walkon in 1 on 1 coverage, so I am not really giving that too much weight.
18. Blue looked pretty good with a couple of nice runs between the tackles. His TD would have been tackled well before he scored had Barron not had a green jersey on. Red was really intriguing, I can see him giving some less athletic teams like K State or Iowa State some real problems. Baxter showed a couple of nice things, but he looks like he may need a little time to be the guy.