As long as he’s playing, the Bruins will have an edge. Only 14 points were put on the board by the Rebel defense, which means that UNLV’s offense put up the rest.
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Last week, the Rebels beat Jackson State 63-13 in their first contest of the year.
They rushed for 280 yards while passing for 223. If UNLV continues to throw the ball well, the tailbacks will be able to run freely. That makes even more sense when you consider the fact that UCLA’s secondary is probably its best overall unit.
If you are thinking of sitting or starting him in a season long league, I wouldn’t be too anxious about last week.
With a h/t to our old friend gBruin, line wins games. Jeremiah spoke with several National Football League executives over the weekend who are intrigued with the senior, and Jeremiah was impressed with his play in reviewing film of the UCLA game. The line as of Tuesday afternoon has UNLV getting 27.
Derwin James, Florida St, Soph., S, 6-3 211, Haines City, FL. Derwin James vindicated some of his preseason All-American hype by having a huge opening game against Ole Miss in which he collected 8 tackles and his first interception of his career.
The left side features a little more experience.
Stanton, who started his college career at Nebraska before going to junior college, led Saddleback College in rushing with 747 yards on 183 carries with 12 touchdowns previous year. UNLV gave up a lot of rushing yards past year (and passing, for that matter), so they’ll need to figure out how to stop Soso Jamabo and Company.
He soon morphed into a running back during training camp before his true freshman year. The junior wideout was on the receiving end of four passes from quarterback Johnny Stanton, and he ended up with 135 receiving yards and three touchdowns. “Have to get more out of our backup guys in critical games like that”.
Seven inches. That’s the average difference in height between UNLV starting running back Lexington Thomas and the Rebels’ offensive line, assuming Thomas stacks up to his listed 5-foot-9. Thomas ran 11 times last week for just 68 yards but scored twice while X had 10 touches for 53 yards. “It was a great play”. They need to be in a rhythm for UNLV to move the ball. Evans has received some high praise heading into this season, and at least one NFL personnel executive thinks he is a better player than Oakland Raiders first-round pick Karl Joseph, according to Daniel Jeremiah of College Football 24/7. He took 12 carries for 96 yards and a touchdown. The Heisman hopeful completed 26 of the 46 pass attempts he attempted while throwing for 343 yards with one touchdown and three interceptions.
MC: Boyd and Stanton have great chemistry.
UCLA comes home to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 2016 for a date with UNLV, a historically weak program on the upswing in its second year under head coach Tony Sanchez.
I’m not sure UCLA is good enough right now to blow teams out.
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Of course, this should be a confidence-building exercise for the Bruins, but, with BYU and Stanford on the horizon, the Bruin defense can not afford to look past the Rebels. Not only do they give Stanton the protection he needs, our running game really opened up as a result of our line.
