Blue White Illustrated

RASHEED WALKER "I could name a bunch of people. Just firsthand, people who I see every day, Caedan Wallace has really made a big jump in his technique and football IQ , and he's just been really good with picking up to the game speed. Adisa Isaac, Noah Cain, all the rest of the running backs, all the quarterbacks, Des Holmes. We've got a whole bunch of guys." JAQUAN BRISKER "P.J. Mustipher, just how he comes in daily, he works all the time. You'll see him out there before practice working hard, you'll see him at the end of practice working on his tech- nique. I would say a lot of people on this team [could have breakout years], but I'll pick P.J. Mustipher." SHAKA TONEY "I'm going to say Jesse Luketa. He's one of the people who wants to be great so bad he's willing to do any- thing to get there. A lot of people will say they want to be great but don't want to put the extra work in. I watch him every day put the extra work in. We drive home together. Before I even put in my key he's already watching practice. He's going to put that work in every day. "Offensively, somebody who people don't talk about who's going to do really well is Des Holmes. That boy, he's got a great punch, great feet. He's getting con- fidence that I always knew that he had, so I could see Des having a good year, too." MICHAL MENET "One of the guys who, I don't know if he surprised me because I always thought he was going to be a pretty good player, but he's really started to show it more recently is Hakeem Bea- mon. I think he's been doing a lot of good things at practice so far and I'm really ex- cited to see how he plays this year." ■ THE TIME IS NOW Holmes has appeared in 18 games over the past two seasons as a backup of- fensive lineman. He's been hailed recently as one of the team's ris- ing stars. "He's got a great punch, great feet," Shaka Toney said. "He's getting confidence that I al- ways knew that he had, so I could see Des having a good year." Photo by Nate Bauer

• Cover