Bloomington – Last year, Curt CIGNETTIfirst Indiana football The spring season has proven to be an exciting preamble to a historic season. The decline proved that the seeds of the IU record in 2024 were sown during the first months of CIGNETTI.
Now, the Hoosiers Try recharging for another blow. There are winners who have already been lying in several positions, but if Iu must make another one Push in playoffs in 2025He will have to resolve certain key questions from the list from spring practice.
Here are five scenarios that deserve to be watched.
Who begins on the offensive line of Indiana football?
The work of Indiana in the portal recharged its offensive line with depth and impact to an equal measure. Now, it’s Bob Bostad to understand how to organize the players in his room.
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Left tackle (Carter Smith) and the center (Transfer from Notre Dame Pat Coogan) Take care of themselves. The other three spots will be fascinating to look at.
Is Drew Evans healthy enough to resume his starting position from the left guard? It will be among the highest return lines in the Big Ten, by PFF, if this is the case.
Where does Kahlil Benson play? THE Indiana in Colorado-to-Indiana played both custody and the tackle in his career. Where it is part of Bostad’s plan adapts to what I think is the best position to Ohio State Transfer Zen MichalskiMainly a tackle throughout his career.
Does Bray Lynch slide without seam in the right guard? Does one of these two transfers push him? Since he can theoretically play on the three inner positions, would it be more logical to maintain it as a swing player?
First 11: Projecting the offensive depth panel of two depths of Indiana Football before spring training
Behind this nucleus six, Indiana has promising young players filtering through its list, especially in the two places on guard. There is a lot to work here. It is up to Bostad to find the right arrangement that backstops one of the best offensive lines of Big Ten in 2024 with more than the same in 2025.
How will the Indiana football runners, will the wide receptors share time?
Elijah Sarratt and Omar Cooper give Indiana a proven production in the receiver, while Roman Hemby and Kaelon Black ensure that there is a lot of experience in the living room. But Iu needs depth and clarity in its positions of jurisdiction out of spring.
In the back field, Hemby, Black and Lee Breebe Jr. gave the position coach John Miller a lot of tools and skills.
Lemby is Well known to fans of IU who watched him put painful figures on the Hoosiers In the past three years. Black knows the offensive upside down and recorded an average of 5.5 yards per race out of 46 rushes last year. Beebe is a year less than the other two, but appeared as a dangerous double threat to the UAB last fall.
What is the division of labor among these three?
And who backs up Sarratt and Cooper to catch passes? Transfer Tyler Morris (Michigan) and Makai Jackson (Appearance state) should divide the position of the location, and EJ Williams returned from the portal to give the Hoosiers Additional experience at the border.
But three receiver places will have to be shared between more than five players, regardless of the moments when Cignetti and Mike Shanahan may want to go four wide. Charlie Becker looks like the first taxi of the rank in terms of young players who could grasp significant shots with the two, but the rotation of the receiver will be worth a watch in the spring.
Who separates at the forefront of Indiana Football?
The All-American Mikail Kamara is back for one more lap. There have been suggestions that he will move to the position of Stud (Hybrid Edge / Secondis) that Lanell Carr occupied last season.
Which raises the question: who takes over at the other end, where Kamara was so success last year?
In terms of internal candidates, it might be better to start with Mario Landino, a second year student who initially committed to James Madison before returning to Indiana. Landino projected as an inner line player but divided his time between the tackle and the end last year, impressive in the gusts.
Sophomore Daniel Ndukwe, another JMU-TO-IU flip in 2024, and the second year student Ta’Derius Collins are the other potential options here.
Indiana has waded into the portal in Edge without success at the end of the winter window, a suggestion that hosiers could always be on the market to get help. That there are better options that what I have in its locker rooms at the moment is another question. To begin with, an intriguing second -year student pocket will be able to pass the practice of spring trying to convince CIGNETTI that such a need no longer exists.
What does Indiana football do with Rover Position?
Indiana let itself be options in the other hybrid place in its defense.
Last year, Defensive coordinator Bryant Haines Divide the security / security / nickel point known as “rover” between the security of the majority of the time. Amare Ferrell made a stay there, before Haines seems to settle on the transfer Old Dominion Terry Jones Jr.
Other 11: Projecting the defensive depth panel two depths from Indiana Football before spring training
This position acts a lot as a nickel corner, which is why Pff listed it as a corner most of the time. But Jones was by exchange security, and this set of skills was in which Indiana led to Rover in 2024.
With the arrivals of Ryland Gandy and Amariyun Knighten, hatred seems to be the emergence of a promising corner more promising to be able to return this position to something more closely to a full -time nickel. This would probably allow more flexibility snap to break in the covers, to switch between humans and the area.
However, with the arrivals of Louis Moore (Ole Miss, formerly of IU) And Devan Boykin (Northern Carolina State), it is possible that the IU has enough depth in terms of safety to keep the rear stored rover.
It will be interesting to see this position take shape.
Who will be the players in small groups of Indiana Football?
Last spring saw the emergence of players like Cooper, Kamara and Evans as a start -up for the first season of Cignetti in Bloomington. Will anyone do the same not demonstrable this time?
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The candidates here include young receivers, all or part of these three potential players Edge and a few others.
Keep an eye on Rolijah Hardy. The excellence and sustainability of Aiden Fisher and Jaillin Walker made it difficult last fall beyond the IU starting secondary duo. Jones is a capable and versatile body in the two positions, but Hardy (22 plated, 5.5 for the loss, two interceptions, two forced escapes) looked like a clever last minute addition in the signature class of 2024.
Each team must show a certain evolution from one year to another, or risks of stagnation turning into vulnerability. Although it is not difficult to choose a large part of the impact players on the IU list before spring training, the Hoosiers would do well to leave this part of the calendar with one or two surprises in trailer.
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