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His biggest competition is likely Donovan Peoples-Jones (returner) and Khaderal Hodge (primarily ST specialist who Jojo actually beat out in LA last year). I believe he actually got a few reps with the 1st team yesterday. In other news - the MAC is already having discussions for the spring. Props to them as they seem to be leading the way on that rather than waiting around until the last minute like everybody did this time.

As we talk about the current situation and the future of football, Jo Jo Natson just finished up his first practice with the Cleveland Browns. A lot of people are saying he could make the team as a return specialist, if not a backup WR. Welcome back to NEOhio!!!

Jerry Brewer of the Washington Post wrote this. It may be behind a paywall but I will provide link and a few thoughts he shared in his long column. It's better to read the entire column and a few others he wrote on the topic. I'm not taking a side but found his views insightful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/15/college-footballs-con-has-been-laid-bare-by-coronavirus-crisis/ "It is futile to hang morality in college football’s closet. Don’t bother trying. The integrity of the sport is so compromised that even a perceived noble gesture during this pandemic serves as little more than a well-stitched mask to preserve the con of amateurism. At the end of a week that featured a historic rupturing of the sport, the Big Ten and Pac-12 may appear as the foremost careful and concerned conferences, while the rest of the Power Five looks daring, reckless or worse. But if trying to salvage college football is akin to guiding a yacht through treacherous waters, all factions should unite around one depressing thought: The ship is sinking. That’s because honest maintenance has been neglected for a while. Some can jump on lifeboats and get out early. Some can play their music louder and enjoy themselves for as long as possible. But this thing is going to submerge, by the force of the relentless novel coronavirus or by the will of enlightened players and others who have turned crisis into clarity about a system of exploitation." "Two of the sport’s most prestigious conferences just opted out on the advice of their medical advisers, fearing covid-19’s link to the heart condition myocarditis. And SEC coaches are flustered because they need to know — right now — how they got Arkansas and Mississippi State or Alabama and LSU as the additional teams on a schedule that still qualifies, despite their insistence on playing, as more of a suggestion than a stone-cold reality. This is why they make the big bucks — and most don’t offer to take pay cuts to help their struggling athletic departments. With the nation still struggling to contain the coronavirus, with schools reopening in some communities and autumn on the horizon, it figures to get increasingly difficult for colleges to play football and other sports this fall. But go ahead and argue about scheduling."

Try to remain calm. All the doctors at the NCAA are working full time to shut this down.

I've been socially distanced in the cheap seats for the last 3 or 4 years!