We are off and running here in Las Vegas for the 97th edition of the East-West Shrine Bowl.
On Saturday, the Steelers Depot crew of myself, Owen Straley and Dr. Melanie Friedlander jumped in an Uber and headed over to the Fertitta Football Complex in the heart of the University of Nevada Las Vegas’s campus for Day 1 of practices. Owen covered the East practice for the site, while I cover the West below.
-Things started off rather slow with some team stretches and and individual position warmups. I was able to take in the quarterbacks in and centers warming up, and it was pretty noteworthy that Baylor’s Xavier Newman-Johnson and Washington’s Luke Wattenberg worked at center with quarterbacks Jack Doan of Notre Dame, Skylar Thompson of Kansas State, and Brock Purdy of Iowa State.