Offday thoughts: Wide Receivers

In what has been a rich passing team for quite some time now, Towson's offense can usually be judged on the wide receiver corp. In the time of Sean Schaefer, with Phil Albert at offensive coordinator, 4 and 5 wide receiver sets were quite common.

With the regime change this past offseason,the one unit that doesn't seem to have changed much has been the wide receiver corp. This unit returns 4 of their 5 most productive receivers. Only two of them, Casey Cegles and Tamba Tongu, enters this season as seniors. With so much youth around them, this season could be a breakout season for Tongu and a leadership opportunity for Ceagles

"I've always considered myself a leader," Cegles said. "Now that I realized I'm the oldest one, I knew it was my turn to take over."

The depth and speed in Towson's receiver corp will be their strength. The development of the run game this offseason will help take the pressure off the corp to put up the numbers they have in the past. To be quite frank, they probably won't match those numbers with the loss of Schaefer, and having only one year of chemistry with both Blair Peterson and Brian Potts who are likely to take over at QB.

"Sean is tough to replace, he's one of the best QB's to ever come through the state of Maryland," Ceagles said. "[Peterson and Potts], they're all good. We're not on the same page yet."

The formula is there for a productive air attack, two strong arm QB's competing for the starting job with a corps of WR's who are very hard to out throw. The only question is who will stretch the field on this unit. David Newsom, Hakeem Moore and Cegles are all reliable slots, and all brought down at least 30 receptions last season. The Tigers will likely look to Steve Holmes and Tongu to be deep threats.

Once again, for a unit with a good amount of depth, naming starters now doesn't mean much, but here it is...

Simon's Starters - Casey Cegles, Hakeem Moore, David Newsom, Tamba Tongu.