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Rice Football 2023 Spring Notebook 10: Defensive Takeaways

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The Rice Football defense once again had a productive spring. Here’s what we learned about that side of the ball.

Despite coming out of the wrong side according to the final score in the 2023 Rice Football Blue and Gray Game, the defense had a largely positive spring. They asserted their will in the prior two scrimmages and made plenty of noise along the way, but they have questions still to be answered as spring winds down. Here are 10 closing thoughts on the defense from the totality of the spring.

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Rice Football 2023 Spring Practice Notebook 6: Scrimmage 2

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Rice Football completed its second scrimmage of the spring this past weekend, which went better for the offense but still wasn’t a perfect showing.

After a near-dominant showing by the Rice football defense in the first scrimmage of the spring, the offense took a step forward in the second scrimmage, carried by big days from the running backs. This update covers the highlights (and lowlights) from the session as well as a few individuals who stood out to members of the coaching staff.

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Rice Football 2022 Fall Camp Notebook 4: Offense shines in Scrimmage 1

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The Rice football offense put its best foot forward in the first scrimmage of fall camp, scoring four touchdowns and coming close on a few other drives.

Rice football reached the halfway point of fall camp this week. capping a run of six straight practice days with their first scrimmage. The offense stole the show, piling up touchdowns and points against a Rice defense that — on this rare occasion — looked mortal. Luke McCaffrey in space can make that happen.

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There was some separation on the quarterback front, a few offensive playmakers worth noting and even a few defensive standout that warranted some praise despite the tough day for their side of the ball. Altogether, we learned a lot and the team as a whole should be pleased with how things are progressing so far in camp.

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Rice Football: Schedule, depth, recruiting — July Patreon Q&A

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A host of great questions came in this month targeting various areas of Rice football so we’re answering them all in this month’s Patreon Q&A.

Our subscribers came through with a host of Rice football related questions for this month’s Patreon Q&A. We’ll start by discussing optimal results for non-conference play, segue into the backup, backup quarterbacks, check in on the depth along the edge behind Kenneth Orji and Josh Pearcy before landing the plane with a brief recruiting discussion in this month’s Patreon Q&A.

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Rice Football 2022 Spring Practice Notebook 2: Depth Chart

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The first Rice football depth chart of the spring has been released featuring several shakeups across the board at a variety of positions.

So the saying goes, a depth chart is worth the price of the paper it’s printed on. If that’s how we feel about these prescribed lineups in the regular season, we ought to put much less stock in their scribbles in the spring. It’s with that important caveat I share the first Rice football depth chart of the spring.

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There are a few things we can glean from these tiered position groupings, starting with who isn’t listed on the roster and venturing to the host of new faces that are cracking a Rice two-deep for the first time in their careers. And that’s before reinforcements show up in the form of graduate transfers this summer. With that in mind, here are five important takeaways from the Rice football spring depth chart.

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