Penn State safety preview and mailbag: BWI Daily
Penn State football may be on spring break, but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t plenty to talk about this week. As always, Thursday means it’s time for the BWI Daily Mailbag show with host Thomas Frank Carr and senior editor Nate Bauer.
Safety position spring preview
They start with Bauer’s article on Wednesday about breakout candidates for the 2022 season. He limited the list to three, but he and T-Frank expound on the number of young players who could take a step forward in their second season on campus. One of the players that Bauer chose was sophomore safety, Jaylen Reed. Reed finished the season playing the boundary safety position, but things may be up in the air with the lack of numbers and depth.
T-Frank explains the problems he sees and the positional fits at the position. He and Bauer go through some potential scenarios as well.
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After that, the pair get into the day’s mailbag questions from viewers of the show. They start with a long conversation about the Penn State running back room. How will the depth chart shake out this spring, and will that cause any players to enter the portal? Will any player be able to make the jump to the NFL? T-Fank and Bauer talk about the importance of the position and what they see happening with the players involved. Next, they pay the same attention to the tight ends. Will any of them have a Mike Gesicki-like breakout season? Bauer thinks it could be possible.
From there, they move to a question from a BWI message board member who wants to know which player would give the Penn State staff the greatest sense of relief by having a strong spring. T-Frank and Bauer give their thoughts, which turns into a conversation about the quarterback position.
The offensive line is the next topic of conversation as one listener asks T-Frank to fix the right tackle position for Penn State. After spending a season pointing out the issue, T-Frank thinks there still is hope for improvement and explains why.
They spend a few minutes talking about which positions underperformed last season before finishing the show discussing a fascinating question submitted to the show via Twitter.
“What are the chances that we see a pre-Iowa injury Sean Clifford?” -AH
Bauer and T-Frank discuss not just the answer to that question but what it means to see that play from the starting signal-caller again.
