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Holgorsen talks depth chart, son’s transfer and nature walks

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In the throes of preseason’s opening week, Dana Holgorsen is reluctant to form early assumptions regarding West Virginia’s depth-chart.

Holgorsen said his staff intends to make its first round of meaningful evaluations Saturday, which is an NCAA-mandated day off for players. By then, the Mountaineers will have practiced six times — twice each in shorts, uppers and full pads.

“There’ll be no football so coaches will have a long time to sit and they’ve got six days of video,” Holgorsen said. “That’s the first day we can say, ‘I think that guy has got a chance to really help us’ or ‘that guy really doesn’t.