Take this for what it’s worth, which is probably very little more than the paper on which it was printed, but we have our first depth chart for the 2008 football team. Again, it means very little, but it does reflect how much things have changed for the Mountaineers…

You’ll probably need to consult the roster to figure out who some of these guys are … and some of them aren’t even listed. I’ve added some notes worth, uh, noting. 

OFFENSE

QB: Patrick White, Jarrett Brown
TB: Noel Devine, Mike Poitier
(Poitier is a converted WR who has no stats to date.)
FB: Sam Morrone, Maxwell Anderson, Thor Merrow
(Morrone and Anderson are out for the spring, so get ready for Merrow. The converted DT wears No. 99, but I’m guesing that’ll change.)
WR (X): Dorrell Jalloh, Wes Lyons
WR: Tito Gonzales, Will Johnson
Slot (H): Brandon Hogan
Slot (S): Jock Sanders
(Very, very thin.)
TE: Tyler Rader
LT: Ryan Stanchek, Jon Walko, Matt Timmerman, Don Barclay
LG: Greg Isdaner, Derek Hayes, John Bradshaw, Phil Conroy
(Isdaner won’t practice this spring. Hayes could use the reps. Remember when Bradshaw was a starter?)
C: Mike Dent, Eric Jobe, Gino Gradkowski, John Hafferty
RG: Jake Figner, Eric Rodemoyer
RT: Selvish Capers, Jake Figner, Stephen Maw
(Where will Figner, who started last season at RT and ended at RG, end up? Remember, Maw started the Fiesta Bowl in place of the injured Capers … and played really well.)
PK: Pat McAfee
KO: Pat McAfee
H: Jeremy Kash
KR: Noel Devine

DEFENSE

DT: Scooter Berry, Doug Slavonic, Joe Rhein
NT: Chris Neild, Josh Taylor, Junius Lewis
DE: Zac Cooper, Julian Miller, Larry Ford
(Cooper is a converted LB, but played a lot of end last season in pass rush situations. Miller is a redshirt freshman who was a terror on the scout team and played his best in the Fiesta Bowl practices. Ford is a junior college transfer who is already enrolled and will practice in the spring.)
SLB: Pat Lazear, Archie Sims
(Sims is a junior college transfer who had a bad hamstring and redshirted last year.)
MLB: Reed Williams, Anthony Leonard
(Williams will not practice in the spring as he recovers from surgery.)
WLB: Mortty Ivy, J.T. Thomas
CB: Kent Richardson, Brantwon Browser
(Browser was Ford’s junior college teammate last season and he, too, is already enrolled.)
CB: Ellis Lankster, Guesly Dervil
SS: Sidney Glover, Justin Blankenshio
FS: Franchot Allen, Nate Sowers  
(Sowers is gone from the “very, very thin” receiving corps.)
BS: Quinton Andrews, Charles Pugh
(This will almost certainly change with one probably floating over to FS.)
P: Pat McAfee, Scott Kozlowski
LS: Adam Hughes, Cody Nutter
PR: N/A