Virginia Releases Depth Chart Ahead of Matchup vs No. 14 Wake Forest: Injuries Bring Changes for UVA

The Virginia Cavaliers are going to attempt to break out of their funk this week against No. 14 Wake Forest, a major challenge for UVA. Virginia has lost three of its last four games and is not playing well on either side of the ball, and now it hasto go on the road to face a red-hot Demon Deacons team that has aspirations of making it to Charlotte and the ACC Championship Game and possibly the College Football Playoff. Is there any chance the Cavaliers can pull off an upset and ruin Wake's chances of getting to Charlotte?

Ahead of Saturday's game, UVA has released its depth chart for the upcoming game/

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)	Ty'Lyric Coleman	Isaiah Robinson
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

Tony Elliott announced today that wide receiver Rico Flores Jr is going to be out for the rest of the season. Flores Jr was one of the top transfer portal acquisitions for the Cavaliers this past offseason, but injuries slowed his season and now a thin and weak position for UVA gets a little weaker.

The other big piece of news from today's press conference was that there is not going to be a change at quarterback for UVA. Elliott says that they are sticking with Beau Pribula and that he gives them the best chance to win games. Elliott also gave his support to offensive coordinator Des Kitchings. UVA's offense has struggled mightily over the past month or so and that has led to speculation that the Cavaliers could make a change at quarterback or that Elliott could get more involved with the play calling. Elliott refuted both of those

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	Ezekiel Larry
LB (WILL)	Maddox Marcellus	Caleb Hardy
LB (MIKE)	Kam Robinson	Landon Danley
CB (Left)	Justin Ross	Jam Jackson
CB (Right)	Jacobie Henderson	Josiah Persinger
SPUR	Donovan Platt or Jaylen Jones	Corey Costner
FS	Ethan Minter or Christian Ellis	Keke Adams
SS	Brandyn Hillman	Montino Williams

Not many changes are coming to the defensive side of the ball. Elliott did say that Corey Costner, Brandyn Hillman, and Ethan Minter are day-to-day ahead of Saturday's game vs the Demon Deacons.

College football has been as unpredictable as ever and the ACC is always good for some surprises or two, but given the way that both teams are playing, it would be a real surprise if UVA was able to pull off a win. Wake Forest has only one loss and it was a 13-point loss to the No. 1 team in the country. They gave Miami a real fight in the second half and since then, they have been excellent. They defeated Louisville on the road and have won their last three ACC games by at least 24 points.

UVA meanwhile has lost 38-7 to Florida State, defeated Syracuse (who was on their third and fourth QB in the game), and lost games to SMU and Duke. Virginia is capable of playing better, but will they?

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