MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In the wake of Charlie Benton’s season-ending knee injury, “fake news” struck the West Virginia depth chart.
This week’s release showed redshirt freshman Exree Loe as the new starter at Sam linebacker, but that sounded particularly odd to one guy who certainly should know the truth — defensive coordinator Tony Gibson.
“That’s not right,” Gibson said. “Shea Campbell is going to be the guy at Sam, but they’ll be splitting time.”
A former walk-on from Morgantown High, Campbell is a 5-foot-11 redshirt junior who bulked up to 235 pounds. He played 37 defensive snaps against Tennessee after Benton went down in the second quarter.