Isaac Popper Projects the Back Seven and Special Teams Depth Charts

By Isaac Popper

BY ISAAC POPPER

As a reminder, the depth chart is simply my best educated guess at placing all 116 players on a spreadsheet, and I recognize that it can be an injustice to the hard-working student-athletes. There is great competition at every position group, especially with only 5 returning starters. With Kam Hamilton playing snaps at a position that he wasn’t listed at on the two-deep last season, I tried to identify some secondary positions where you could see some students play based on practice reps. As Jake and Jimmy covered the main position battles, I will cover the overall roster. I bolded returning starters and underlined returning players from last season.

Last season, 8 players played 450 snaps on defense. Of those, only Sam Howard (533) and Slim Despanie (504) returned, but I predict 8 opening day starters to be players from last year’s team. Tulane brought in a bunch of highly sought after players in multiple portal windows, however the staff has clearly succeeded in developing their in-house talent. Jalen Geiger started over Jack Tchienchou last season but played less snaps despite Jack’s first game coming against Kansas State (Team started vs Southeastern). Jack and Kevin Adams combined for over 800 snaps last season, and Kam Hamilton started every conference game. Javion White had the 4th highest PFF grade on the team last season, and Joker Johnson’s season PFF grade was also higher than 3rd round pick Caleb Ransaw’s (as well as Johnathan Edwards and JET Award Watch List and First team Preseason All American KR Ray Pleasant). Also, potential starting CB E’zaiah Shine missed his freshman year with an injury.

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