Auburn Scrimmage Notes

Auburn held a 80+ play scrimmage this morning at the intramural fields. Brandon Cox caught Will Herring asleep on the first play from scrimmage and hit Kenny Irons for 79 yards to the 1. The offense lined up on their own 20 and handed it off to Carl Stewart who went 40 yards before fumbling the ball (the offense recovered). Two plays later Brandon Cox went deep to Devin Aromashodu, but was picked off by Wilhite. The offense failed to score until an hour later when Cox hit Mix for 15 yards, once again Will Herring was out of position. Blake Field ran the second team today, and looked average. He had one interception late in the scrimmage. Calvin Booker dropped 3 snaps and had one snapped over his head. Cox dropped one, but recovered it. Brad Lester got most of the carries today at running back. Overrall the defense looked pretty good. The offense ran mostly short routes until the end of scrimmage when they opened it up on the third team defense. Only one player went down with injury. Joe Cope hit the ground screaming in agony early in the scrimmage. Everyone stopped what they were doing and took a knee. His screams indicated that he was seriously injured, but 5 minutes later he stood and walked off the field. No one could tell what really happened to him, but it was apparent that he doesn't like pain.