Dravon still in good spirits! #WVUFanDay pic.twitter.com/9Ualuqh46c

— WVU Football (@WVUfootball) August 14, 2016

Good to see that smile, because Dravon Askew-Henry was not like that for much of last week. Injured Wednesday. In limbo Thursday. Undergoing an MRI Friday. Devastated by the news afterward.

His teammates said their hearts broke when they heard the news. But Jeremy Tyler saw Askew-Henry’s heart break. He was at the stadium when Askew-Henry was behind closed doors getting the knee checked out, and he was outside waiting for his friend, his teammate, his brother to emerge.

When he did, Tyler knew. “No words needed,” Tyler said.

Then the first day of the rest of the season began and — I’m whispering now — the Mountaineers don’t feel too badly about themselves. I don’t think it’s just because Saturday happened and the defense was better than the offense in the scrimmage. I think WVU thinks it’s going to be all right.

“It hurts losing a guy, but we’ve got to move on,” defensive coordinator Tony Gibson said. “I guess the only positive part about it is we’re three weeks away. We’ve got time to get another guy ready. If it were to happen to us the same time as it did with Karl, it would be much harder.”

Joseph was injured in practice after the fourth game. WVU had three days to get ready for a home game against Oklahoma State. The Mountaineers are again down a safety — and that means five new starters in the five-player secondary — but they’ve been through this before. The difference is they have far more time to prepare.

“Right now it’s kind of safety by committee,” safeties coach Matt Caponi said. “We have some really good, athletic players who understand what we’re doing, so we can rotate some guys around and move some guys around.”

Come back later — much later, in fact after the All-Camp Team — when we try to make some sense and order of the Brendan Ferns injury.