USC Trojans Head Coach Lincoln Riley Discusses The Tight Ends Group During Spring Camp

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00:00I talked last week about the overall size up front, but with Jamal Jarrett specifically,

00:03what have you seen development-wise for a guy who hasn't played a whole lot of college naps,

00:07but just up looks the part, obviously?

00:09Yeah, I think there's, you know, we've been really pleased with the effort that he plays with,

00:13the intensity, there's a lot of intensity on the practice field, and he trained that way this winter.

00:19I think now, more than anything, it's just, I mean, one, getting used to the system,

00:23but I think fundamentally there's a lot that we wanted to clean up there,

00:26and even just now halfway through spring or almost halfway, you could see that.

00:30I mean, he's starting to play lower, starting to play out of his hips more,

00:34starting to use his hands better, just everything with the guy's improving,

00:38and when the fundamentals get better, when you've got a talent like that,

00:41you start to see some of the results behind it, so he's doing a great job.

00:44Obviously, you know, Henny and Nua and Skylar Jones, our entire group there,

00:47is doing a really good job with him.

00:49What have you seen from the tight ends group so far?

00:51You guys were in sync there, huh?

00:52I know, good practice.

00:53What have you seen from the tight ends group so far this spring?

00:55Yeah, it's a deeper, certainly more talented group than what we've had.

01:02You know, they've, with a couple of the receivers being down right now,

01:05have had a pretty active role in terms of just how much we've used them this spring,

01:10which has been great.

01:11They've had a lot of opportunities to make plays, and they're doing a nice job of it.

01:15So, yeah, it's just you feel their presence probably more on the practice field

01:19than you ever have because of numbers and how we're using them

01:21and the plays that they're making.

01:22So I think we've got some really good competitive depth.

01:25We've got some good position battles going on in there.

01:27We've got some differing skill sets that will be, you know,

01:30kind of fun to see how they all evolve and how we use them.