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While you wait, let’s peek at WVU’s receivers. It’s an interesting mix.

The three presumed starters have actually combined for some promising statistics, but then you realize that Shelton Gibson has contributed basically nothing toward that sum.

Daikiel Shorts was pretty good as a freshman and wasn’t quite that good last season. That might worry you, but how about some perspective? Flip those seasons around. You’d feel better, no? His sophomore season came in the presence of peak Kevin White/Mario Alford. His freshman season came when the QB didn’t have that type of talent around him. Shorts stepped forward and led the team in receptions.

Put it this way: If you did flip those seasons, you’d probably feel like you do about Jordan Thompson, who had a quietly productive season in 2014, but spent some time in a house meant for dogs before that. He nevertheless gave WVU an option (inside) when he needed to last season (and more or less moved Shorts).

The players behind those three probably ought to be there, and there were times when WVU was looking at Vernon Davis, Devonte Mathis and K.J. Myers to be starters. In a lesser role, this seems find. And if not, maybe you ought not worry. Dana Holgorsen’s never signed a group of receivers here more talented than this Durante-Jennings-White combo — and the Mountaineers know it.

WVU has eight returning scholarship receivers. Only redshirt freshmen Lamar Parker and Ricky Rogers and sophomore Shelton Gibson, a standout in the spring who is positioned to start preseason camp as a starter outside, haven’t played two full seasons. Each of the eight and the three first-year receivers on campus for the summer got an idea of receivers coach Lonnie Galloway’s demands for the fall.

“My spiel is going to be, ‘You’re going to get to play if you work hard. If you don’t work hard, you’re not going to get to play,’” Galloway said. “It’s time for some guys to start stepping in and doing some of the things they need to do or the (new) kids will get a lot of reps.”