University of Toledo football coach Jason Candle is in a bit of an awkward place, because in a perfect world, he would redshirt every freshman. But he knows, realistically, he will have to count on some of the freshmen from the top-ranked 2017 class in the Mid-American Conference to play this season.
So now during camp he and his staff must evaluate which freshmen can contribute immediately and which would benefit the most from a year of physical and mental development.
“Ideally you’d like to redshirt every freshman,” Candle said. “That would be key, but there are a lot of guys that in the next two weeks here we are going to know if they are going to be able to help us now or if we’ll have to redshirt them and let them develop.