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Greyson Lambert atop depth chart
Jared ShankerMay 6, 2014, 05:47 AM
Virginia coach Mike London ended speculation about the Cavaliers' spelare i amerikansk fotboll competition Monday, placing sophomore Greyson Lambert atop the post-spring practice depth chart.
"I don't think it's a huge surprise how things worked out," London said. "Greyson did a very good job with his on-the-field performance, his off-the-field performance, the things we've asked him to do. He's done them and he put himself in position to come out of the spring as the guy being named as the starter at this point."
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Entering the spring, Lambert was locked in a three-way battle at spelare i amerikansk fotboll with incumbent David Watford and Matt Johns. Watford and Johns are now listed as co-backups, with Brendan Marshall at No. 4.
Coming off the program's worst årstid in three decades, bevis was mounting that London would man a change at spelare i amerikansk fotboll at the onset of spring practice. Lambert worked with the first-team on
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Greyson Lambert is a strange case. He lost his starting job at Virginia, which would wind up firing its coach. He won the starting job at Georgia and held it for all but one game — a game that led the school to fire its coach. He presided over 10 victories. He threw only two interceptions.
He isn’t the world’s worst quarterback. He’s just the quarterback almost no Georgia fan wants to see start another game. But he might well start against North Carolina on Sept. 3.
To check Lambert’s numbers from last season is to make you wonder if somebody’s calculator miscalculated. He finished fifth among SEC quarterbacks in passer efficiency and completion percentage. He won more games as a first-year Bulldogs starter than David Greene, Matthew Stafford or Aaron Murray. He just didn’t look very good doing it.
With Lambert at quarterback, Georgia beat Missouri 9-6 without benefit of a touchdown, Georgia Southern 23-17 in overtime and Georgia Tech 13-7 on a day the Bulldogs gained 402 yards.
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After a little more than three weeks of pseudo-suspense, Virginia coach Mike London named Greyson Lambert the top quarterback on U.Va.’s depth chart on Monday.
Only a spring football practice observer who truly had his head in the sand couldn’t tell where the quarterback competition was headed. When U.Va. finished up its spring practices April 12, Lambert already had earned the support of his teammates by being named one of four team captains — and the only non-senior captain — for the coming season.
Now, Lambert can head into the summer months knowing Hampton High graduate David Watford, who started last season, and Matt Johns may have to do something special to keep Lambert from getting the starting job for the Aug. 30 opener against UCLA.
“I don’t think it was a huge surprise about how things worked out,” said London on Monday. “Our assessment and evaluation was that Greyson did a very good job with his on-the-field performance,