Virginia Football Releases Depth Chart For Upcoming Matchup vs SMU

In what might be the most consequential matchup in the ACC this weekend, Virginia heads to SMU to try, and defeat the Mustangs and keep their hopes alive for making it to the conference championship game. To do that, they are going to play far better than they have in their last three games against FBS teams, including the win over Syracuse.

Ahead of the game vs SMU, Virginia has released their depth chart for the game. As a reminder, depth charts are to be taken with a grain of salt and some of the players who UVA listed on theirs this week are not going to play this weekend.

Offense

Position	Starter	Top backup
QB	Beau Pribula	Eli Holstein
RB	Jekail Middlebrook	Xay Davis, or Xavier Brown or Peyton Lewis or Noah Vaughn
WR (X)	Rico Flores Jr. or Ty'Lyric Coleman	Dylan Cope
WR (Z)	Da'Shawn Martin	Jacquon Gibson
WR (Slot)	Kameron Courtney	Josiah Abdullah
TE	Dakota Twitty	Connor Cox or John Rogers
LT	McKale Boley	Ben York
LG	Noah Josey	Cole Surber
C	Drake Metcalf	Ryan Brubaker or Grayson Reid
RG	Makilan Thomas	Dane Wlekinski
RT	Monroe Mills	Jon Adair

Today, head coach Tony Elliott announced that wide receiver Rico Flores Jr is not going to be available for the game vs SMU. Flores Jr has flashed at times this season, but him being out means that other wide receivers are going to have to step up on Saturday if the Cavaliers have any chance of being able to pull off the upset.

Who could that be? Da'Shawn Martin , Kam Courtney, or Jacquon Gibson are the names I would watch against SMU.

The offense is going to have to find some kind of consistency in this game. SMU does not have an imposing defense and there should be opportunities to score on them so long as UVA does not turn the ball over and the offensive line performs to their standard.

Defense

Position	Starter	Top backup
DE	Fisher Camac	Nnanna Anyanwu
NT	Anthony Britton	Sichan John
DT	Darrion Henry-Young	Kervins Choute
DE (BANDIT)	Matthew Fobbs-White	Devon Baxter
LB (WILL)	Maddox Marcellus	Caleb Hardy
LB (MIKE)	Kam Robinson	Landon Danley
CB (Left)	Omillio Agard	Jam Jackson
CB (Right)	Jacobie Henderson	Justin Ross
SPUR	Donovan Platt	Jaylen Jones or Corey Costner
FS	Ethan Minter	Christian Ellis or Keke Adams
SS	Brandyn Hillman	Montino Williams

The big news on the defensive side of the football today was when Elliott announced that starting cornerback Omillio Agard is going to be out for the rest of the season with an ACL injury.

Pro Football Focus had Agard as the fourt-highest graded player on the defense, earning a 75.3 grade in over 240 snaps, including a 76.7 coverage grade. He is not going to be an easy player to replace and Jam Jackson, Jacobie Henderson, Donovan Platt, and others are going to have to step up over the course of the next six games.

Elliott also said that safety Brandyn Hillman is day-to-day, as is linebacker Maddox Marcellus.

Are these injuries going to hinder UVA from being able to win the game on Saturday? It is tough to say, as SMU has one of the best offenses in the ACC and UVA's defense has not played well agianst FBS opponents. This is going to be a massive challenge.

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