This should clear up the roster questions:
http://static.psbin.com/e/d/2q3tqy5ehtglf8/SacQuickFacts13.pdf
Looks like Castaneda is in fact gone. Either he couldn’t hold up his end of the bargain in the classroom or he did something stupid to get himself kicked off the team. Looks like we have ourselves another place kicker competition this fall. Fortunately ST Coach Fred Kelley was on staff during the kicking debacle of 2011 so he saw first hand what not to do wrt choosing a place kicker.
Other notables gone:
- • Interior defensive linemen (#92) Trevor Kelly (6 starts) and (#98) Edmund Faimalo. DL depth was a strength last season and these two departures will hurt. Sizeable depth up front will now be an issue this season, expect the run defense to be impacted.
• Offensive lineman (#72) Devonte Martin (10 starts). A big body that could have been used on either side of the ball is gone. His loss will be mitigated with the return of (#74) Derek Stickney from an injury redshirt.
• QB (#4) Mason Magleby. We figured this out with the addition of Fresno transfer Marcus McDade (now on the roster as #14).
• Reserve RB (#32) Clark Partridge. Not a big loss but this removes any sizable RB from the roster. There are no big RB’s on the roster so short yardage situations could be an issue.
• DB’s (#5) Chris Lopes and (#22) Corey Vanderbeek. Lopes transferred in from UConn and had no impact whatsoever. Vanderbeek broke onto the scene on special teams but had his impact mitigated by the new punting rules; he would have been a senior so his departure is a little surprising (maybe he had his schollie pulled and given to one of the new DB’s?).