Spiller, in his first season as the Tigers’ running backs coach, has a room full of talent with which to work. There are veterans such as Lyn-J Dixon and Chez Mellusi and Darien Rencher who have played a lot of snaps, emerging star Kobe Pace, another veteran in Michel Dukes, and freshmen standouts Will Shipley and Phil Mafah.
He was asked if there was a pecking order – a depth chart of sorts – in his room and he went into coach mode and said the spring is all about evaluation and that the depth chart would come later.