One guy’s educated guess at Weber State football’s Week 1 depth chart

ROBERT CASEY, Weber State Athletics
Weber State head football coach Mickey Mental watches his team scrimmage Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, at Bonneville High School in Washington Terrace.Weber State football’s 2023 season begins in just five days and the Mickey Mental era will officially begin.
With that, WSU’s first depth chart of the season will be out soon, likely Monday.
Some positions seemed fairly solid to start fall camp, some groups became clear by camp’s end.
And some, I’m willing to take a possible ‘L’ or two as I fill out a reporter’s educated prediction for what that will look like.
Of note, my main caveats to the following list include that Haze Hadley’s injury recovery is going well but I’m uncertain about how his reps will look to open the season. And, even when fully healthy, I expect Hadley and Jayleen Record to get plenty of reps in various ways anyway.
The other is that, in the safety group, sophomore Trevian Tribble suffered one of the team’s few significant fall camp injuries. It’s unclear how serious his injury is or the impact it will have on his season, but it seemed apparent at the final camp scrimmage that Week 1 is not on the table.
Players separated by a backslash indicate starter and backup, while an “OR” indicates an expected co-starter situation.
Without further ado:
OFFENSE
QUARTERBACK: Kylan Weisser / Creyton Cooper
RUNNING BACK: Damon Bankston / Kris Jackson
OUTSIDE RECEIVER: Jacob Sharp
OUTSIDE RECEIVER: Tajon Evans OR Treyshun Hurry
SLOT RECEIVER: Haze Hadley OR Jayleen Record
TIGHT END: Hayden Meacham / Keayen Nead
LEFT TACKLE: Noah Atagi
LEFT GUARD: Ethan Atagi
CENTER: Andrew Carter
RIGHT GUARD: Jordan Lutui
RIGHT TACKLE: Gavin Ortega
Next OL up: Cole Casto, Seti Lapuaho
DEFENSE
WEAK-SIDE END: Okiki Olorunfunmi / Cameren Cope
DEFENSIVE TACKLE: Steven Bryant / Easton Payne
DEFENSIVE TACKLE: Zeke Birch / Matt Herron
STRONG-SIDE END: Brayden Wilson OR Keahnist Thompson
OUTSIDE LINEBACKER: Garrett Beck
MIDDLE LINEBACKER: Winston Reid
OUTSIDE LINEBACKER: Jack Kelly
Next LB up: Jayden Ah You
CORNERBACK: Marque Collins
CORNERBACK: Maxwell Anderson
Nickel/next up: Abraham Williams, Jalon Rock, Tre Parks-Vinson
FREE SAFETY: EJ Evett / LJ Anderson
STRONG SAFETY: Naseme Colvin / BJ Carey
SPECIAL TEAMS
PUNT RETURN: Haze Hadley OR Jayleen Record
KICK RETURN: Abraham Williams / Jayleen Record OR Marque Collins
PLACE KICKER: Kyle Thompson
PUNTER: Jack Burgess
KICKOFF: Sloan Calder
LONG SNAPPER: Grant Sands
HOLDER: Jack Burgess