There are two category of Hokie Special Teams players; Specialists and Field personnel. There isn’t much point in going over the Field players. The blockers, rushers, returners, and cover guys are almost always top performing newbie bench players combined with well placed upperclass starters. It’s been Beamer’s habit since the 90’s, and that has not changed with the Fuente Era.
What is very important, though is the list and quality of the Specialists. The most important part of that is the loss to graduation of Joey Slye. Joey had his issues, but he gave his all on every play and still outscored a bunch of kickers.