Football Notebook: News and notes from CMU football practice
Here are news and notes from CMU football practice this week. The Chippewas host Ball State tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.
Injury Updates:
Junior running back Saylor Lavallii, senior defensive back Jason Wilson and freshman cornerback Amari Coleman are all expected to play in Saturday’s game against Ball State.
Lavallii suffered an apparent head injury during Saturday’s win at Northern Illinois. His helmet was taken from him and he did not play the rest of the game. Lavallii practiced Wednesday.
“He’s good, he looked real good,” said Head coach Dan Enos. “I talked to him, he said he had no ill effects from Saturday.”
Wilson suffered a leg injury against Toledo.
“It tightened up on him,” Enos said. “He felt good during warm-up, felt good Wednesday and Thursday and it tightened up on him. Just didn’t feel like he could play at the level that he wanted to.”
Coleman is one of many Chippewas to be inserted as a kick and punt returner with success. He took his first kick as a Chippewa back for 50 yards against Kansas.
As a senior at New Lothrop High School, Coleman fielded six punts and scored on all of them.
Soft schedule remains:
The combined record of the five teams left on CMU’s schedule is 10-17. None of those five teams have a winning record.
“To be picked to win the rest of the season or even to win a game, that gives you confidence,” said senior wide receiver Titus Davis. “We know what we’re capable of.”
Davis still not 100 percent
Titus Davis said he’s still not up to full speed since he suffered a knee sprain on a punt return against Chattanooga the first week of the season.
After sitting out games against Purdue, Syracuse and Kansas, Davis has averaged 121 yards per game in his last three contests.
“I’d probably say around 90 (percent),” Davis said. “I thought I was at 90 in Toledo game, but I took a couple steps back. I’m getting right back up to where I want to be, I’m happy with the way I am.”
Enos confident in Eavey
Redshirt freshman kicker Brian Eavey had his first career field goal miss Saturday against NIU, coming up short on a 50-yard try.
“When he hits it, he can make a 50-yarder,” Enos said. “He made it in warm up. He didn’t hit that one the way he wanted to. I think it just depends on the wind and the situation, we can get him probably up to about a 50-yarder.”
The Grand Ledge native is 18-for-18 on extra points and is five-for-six on field goals in 2014, with his longest coming from 37 yards.
