How WVU's position room enters mid-May in the offense
Since early April, there have been a lot of action inside and outside the transfer portal in West Virginia.
wvsports.com looks at who transfers to WVU and how this affects the location of the offensive room.
Overall, West Virginia lost 15 people on the offense of the football game. Since then, climbers have added a lot of people in offense.
West Virginia lost three guys in front of the O-Line in the spring window to the transfer portal, but the climber's front has been added a lot.
In the spring window, WVU added Mickel Clay, Josh Aisosa, Malik Agbo, Carson Lee, Donovan Haslam and Ayden Bussell.
These additions meant that at the time, 22 offensive linemen in WVU's lineup entered the summer. Five are elderly people and four are juniors.
Senior groups include Clay and Lee, as well as Walter Young, Kimo Makane'ole and Ty'kieast Crawford. Juniors and Xavier Bausley and Landen Livingston include Haslam and Agbo. Bausley and Livingston were two of the few returnees on the WVU team last year.
WVU has four real freshmen on O-Line, and they have five redshirt tickets and four sophomores.
The theme of experience and competition will be the most common O-Line of WVU this summer and enters the fall camp. It is obvious that the offensive line needs to be restructured for climbers, and the coaching staff has invested in many options.
West Virginia lost three defenders to the transfer portal and took one during the spring transfer.
The climber lost senior LJ Turner, Redshirt-Freshman Trae'von Dunbar and Redshirt-Jewish Price. WVU took over SMU senior Jaylan Knighton. The Cavaliers have only 12 of just three games in 2024, but he had 745 yards and seven touchdowns a year ago.
West Virginia also landed on the portal, plus Kannon Katzer and Cyncir Bowers.
Katzer began his career in Washington State to spend a season at Citrus College and then play with Ferris State. Last season, he rushed for 1,128 yards and 11 touchdowns, averaging 8.8 yards per carry.
Bowles is from Central Community College, Iowa. He is 5-foot-10 and he spent a season in Western Iowa where he scored 155 times for a total of 1,008 yards and 12 touchdowns. Bowers is one of two sophomores as he and Clay Ash are two young choices in the WVU running room.
Katzer joins Jahiem White as a junior in the room, while Tye Edwards and Knighton are seniors. West Virginia currently has seven people in the running room.
After the spring practice, West Virginia lost five wide receivers, but none of them were bigger than the Redshirt Lovers, while three were Redshirt Tickets.
Since the Spring Portal, WVU has added four guys to the portal, including Christian Hamilton, Justin Smith-Brown, Jordan McKent and Logan Lambert.
Smith Brown is from South Carolina and has 81 catches for a total of 1,196 yards and seven touchdowns in three seasons. He has 54 catches for a total of 749 yards and four touchdowns over the past year. He played more than 1,300 times in his career.
McCarters doesn’t have a lot of live productions, but he played 12 games last season, while Hamilton scored seven passes for 159 yards and scored last season.
Romantic Terrace is another piece from mountain rocks. He has 74 catches, 1,165 yards and 14 touchdowns in his career, while he has 748 yards and 8 touchdowns in the past season with 42 passes.
WVU's wide reception room has six seniors, including Romance Desk and Smith Brown. WVU has four juniors, three sophomores and three real freshmen. In the WVU's wide reception room, there are a total of four returners.
West Virginia lost to the transfer portal, the largest of which was sophomore Jack Sammarco, who moved to Alabama.
WVU recently added rooms, bringing Grayson Barnes from Ryan Ward of Northern Illinois and North Carolina.
Barnes is a 6-foot-5-inch, 225-pound option that has captured 50 passes of 760 yards and 9 points over the past two seasons. Ward spent a year at UNC, but in high school he was a solid choice, with a total of 85 receptions for 1,823 yards and 27 touchdowns.
Of the six guys in WVU's tight room, there are three seniors, and Ward is a sophomore, with two returners in Noah Braham and Colin McBee.
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