Date: 8/9
Time: 3:30-5:15 p.m. (CDT)
Place: Jaguar Training Center
Practice attire: Shells (helmets and shoulder pads)

Offensive Players of the Day: Zac Crosby, Jr., TE, Yulee, Fla. and Khameron Taylor, Jr., TE, Alachua, Fla.
-Offensive coordinator Kenny Edenfield on Crosby and Taylor: "We've been counting on a lot of our tight ends here in fall camp, they've been battling hard, and both Khameron and Zac have really made some big strides."

Defensive Player of the Day: Joshua Carter, Fr, LB, Navarre, Fla.
-Defensive coordinator Greg Stewart on Carter: "Josh is from right down the road from here and is making a move, he had a really good scrimmage and is practicing well.  You can tell he's been coached up and he knows how to play hard, he is going to have a chance this year."

Play of the Day: During the final team period, on a play going away from Maurice Strong Jr. the redshirt freshman chased down the running back for a tackle for loss.

Team period highlights: The second half of the workout included three different 10-minute team periods, with the second of those featuring third-down situations while the other two saw the offense calling both run and pass plays against the Jag defense.

Miscellaneous Notes
-The day featured three separate special teams periods, with South working on field goals/PATs and kickoff returns for five minutes each as well as 10 minutes on punt coverage.
-Nearly all of the opening 30 minutes of the afternoon were focused on individual drills.
-Cephus Johnson was 9-of-10 passing — the lone incompletion was a drop — during the team's 7-on-7 period, finding Jalen Tolbert three times including for a 12-yard touchdown and Kawaan Baker twice.
-During that 10-minute segment of practice, Taj Bickham broke up one pass and intercepted another while Devin Rockette and Sterrling Fisher defended passes in between.
-Davyn Flenord caught a 39-yard touchdown pass from Johnson during the first team period.
-Both Khalil McDonald and DJ Daniels were credited with stops behind the line of scrimmage in that period.
-USA's defense allowed just 3-of-10 third-down conversions during the next team period, which ended on a Brentt Cunningham sack.
-Mo Edwards Jr. accounted for two of those first downs while Tolbert made a catch for the other.
-Tylan Morton hit Tre'Veon Hamilton for a 43-yard touchdown in the final team period of the afternoon.
-Not only did Strong record multiple tackles for loss for the defense in that period, A.J. DeShazor, Kade Koler and Nick Mobley made stops behind the line as well.
-All practices are closed to the general public.

Head coach Steve Campbell
-On what the team needs work on over the next week after yesterday's scrimmage: "We need to work on our perimeter blocking and some of our assignments in that area.  We need to get a little more movement on the offensive line and we need to create some more explosive plays, we're still looking for some of those plays offensively but I know we've got them.  We just need to figure out the right way to get them the ball and they have to take advantage of their opportunities.  We didn't have the number of explosive plays in the scrimmage that we want to have, but I'm glad to see that from a defensive perspective."
-On the players answering today's challenge from the coaches: "I was pleased with today coming back after yesterday's scrimmage.  We talked with the players about the fact that the scrimmage wasn't exactly what we wanted it to be, definitely from an offensive standpoint.  There were also some things that we need to work on defensively.  We challenged them to come out with a lot of energy and juice, and make today our best day and I think we did that.  The guys really flew around; it wasn't perfect, but it's not going to be right now.  The goal for us is to get better every day and we are definitely a better football team after today's practice."
-On the health of the team a week into camp: "For being seven days in with five of those in full pads, we're pretty healthy.  We've got a bump and a bruise here and there, but the guys have fought through it well."

Up next: South wraps up the first full week of the preseason with a workout at the James A. and Frances H. Yance Football Practice Facility that is slated to get underway at 9:30 a.m.
 
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