As currently scheduled, there’s less than four weeks until FIU’s 2020 season-opener at Liberty on September 26th.
Late last week, Butch Davis’ team practiced in full pads for the first time since last season’s Camellia Bowl game week.
Plenty has changed with the Panthers between then and now with several key questions needing answering after the departure of the most successful senior class in program history.
Let’s examine four questions outside of the quarterback competition that will need to be resolved before the team opens the season in Lynchburg.
New Faces at Wide Receiver
With the graduations of Austin Maloney, Tony Gaiter IV, Maurice Alexander and Darrius Scott — along with Shemar Thornton’s injury and Cadarius Gaskin’s transfer, the Panthers have precisely zero returning production at receiver from last year’s team.