Wake Forest Football: Career Starts of Projected Starters

In sports they say that experience matters. With that in mind, I decided to take a look at the number of career starts each of our projected starters.

Player	Position	Year	Career Starts
John Wolford	QB	Freshman	0
Orville Reynolds	RB	Senior	6
Matt James	WR	RS Senior	2
Jared Crump	WR	RS Sophomore	4
E.J. Scott	WR	Graduate	2
Cam Serigne	TE	RS Freshman	0
Antonio Ford	LT	RS Senior	9
Will Smith	LG	RS Sophomore	0
Cory Helms	C	Sophomore	11
Josh Harris	RG	Sophomore	1
Dylan Intemann	RT	RS Junior	16
Offense Total			51
Player	Position	Year	Career Starts
Zachary Allen	DE	RS Senior	1
Tylor Harris	DT	Junior	4
Josh Banks	DT	RS Sophomore	0
Duke Ejiofor	DE	RS Freshman	0
Brandon Chubb	LB	RS Junior	12
Marquel Lee	LB	Sophomore	0
Hunter Williams	ROV	RS Junior	9
Kevin Johnson	CB	RS Senior	29
Merrill Noel	CB	RS Senior	31
Anthony Wooding Jr.	S	Senior	19
Ryan Janvion	S	RS Sophomore	12
Defense Total			117

The offense is very inexperienced and averages under 5 career starts per player. By comparison, the senior cornerback duo of Kevin Johnson and Merrill Noel has more career starts (60) than our entire offense (51). To be more fair to the offense I'll point out that backup offensive linemen Ty Hayworth and Hunter Goodwin have a combined 10 career starts. Either way, the offense is still well behind the defense in terms of playing experience. Additionally, at several of the position battles (tight end and defensive end), no matter who is named the starter, that player will have zero career starts.

Here is the distribution of our starters by class. I separated true freshmen and redshirt freshmen, but other than that the classes other classes would include both true and redshirts (e.g. true sophomores and redshirt sophomores).

Class	Number
Freshman	1
Redshirt Freshmen	2
Sophomores	7
Juniors	4
Seniors/Graduate	8