A detour into spring football! I honestly believe this: Nothing is more menial to Dana Holgorsen than a pre-spring depth chart. The entire point of spring practice is, in essence, to create a depth chart after the spring game. Formations, personnel, order of succession, the whole deal — and that’s how Jake Spavital is taking things as he begins his first season in charge of the West Virginia offense.

“We want to figure it out and wrap it around them,” Spavital said. “I think it’s big to throw a lot of experiments out there in the spring.”

So on one hand, you don’t want to wrap your feelings around that very-preliminary depth chart. (Also: Steven Smothers is still on the roster.) But it does give you an idea where players landed when their named were tossed around meeting rooms over the winter, who has to be good, who has a chance to step forward and nab a spot during the remainder of the 15 practices — WVU did start a week ago, after all — and also where a summer arrival can make a splash.

There are some subtle things perhaps you can find, and I don’t want to take away from the point of this post, but I also think it’s really interesting there isn’t a single “or” in the flow of players. The Mountaineers do have a list of spots that need new starters and/or backups.

Anyhow, the point of the post … what do you see, what do you not see? What stands out, what is subtle? What in the world do you make of a pre-spring depth chart for a team that did win 10 games last season?