BRI Staff
08-14-2011, 09:26 PM
Buoyed by an encouraging 5-6 showing during which 15 individual or team records were set in its return to the field after a 21-year absence, Lamar will enter this season with greater expectations.
Coach Ray Woodard's second Cardinal outfit will certainly be more experienced than last season's youthful team. Sixty lettermen return while only eight were lost. Also back are 21 of last year's 22 position starters, although some will be contested by a talented bunch of newcomers from the junior college and high school ranks along with a couple of major college transfers.
Senior Andre Bevil, who set a school record with 429 passing yards against McNeese State in the 2010 season opener and averaged 201.3 aerial yards per game, returns, but sophomore Doug Prewitt, who started the final three games of the season after Bevil was slowed by an injury, finished ahead of him on the depth chart at quarterback at the end of spring training. These two quarterbacks are certain to be pushed for playing time by former Silsbee standout Jeremy Johnson, a redshirt freshman who transferred during the offseason from West Virginia University.
Lamar's quarterbacks will not be lacking for talented targets. Senior J.J. Hayes, who also played for Woodard at Navarro College, returns as the starter at split end, where he caught a team-high 52 passes for 745 yards and six touchdowns last season. Senior Marcus Jackson, another former Woodard pupil, returns with a team-high eight touchdowns among his 41 catches for 727 yards.
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Coach Ray Woodard's second Cardinal outfit will certainly be more experienced than last season's youthful team. Sixty lettermen return while only eight were lost. Also back are 21 of last year's 22 position starters, although some will be contested by a talented bunch of newcomers from the junior college and high school ranks along with a couple of major college transfers.
Senior Andre Bevil, who set a school record with 429 passing yards against McNeese State in the 2010 season opener and averaged 201.3 aerial yards per game, returns, but sophomore Doug Prewitt, who started the final three games of the season after Bevil was slowed by an injury, finished ahead of him on the depth chart at quarterback at the end of spring training. These two quarterbacks are certain to be pushed for playing time by former Silsbee standout Jeremy Johnson, a redshirt freshman who transferred during the offseason from West Virginia University.
Lamar's quarterbacks will not be lacking for talented targets. Senior J.J. Hayes, who also played for Woodard at Navarro College, returns as the starter at split end, where he caught a team-high 52 passes for 745 yards and six touchdowns last season. Senior Marcus Jackson, another former Woodard pupil, returns with a team-high eight touchdowns among his 41 catches for 727 yards.
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