MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — There won’t be much mystery surrounding West Virginia’s secondary at the start of August training camp. Outside of some potential jostling at cornerback, the two-deep appears pretty set at each position.
The Mountaineers replace two departing senior safeties in Toyous Avery and Dravon Askew-Henry, but will do so with veterans.
Their coverage responsibilities will be different under new defensive coordinator Vic Koenning. Koenning’s defenses usually play the more zone-oriented cover-4 or “quarters” coverage in the defensive backfield as opposed to the primarily man-to-man cover-1 look that was employed by Tony Gibson.
Here’s a look at West Virginia’s projected secondary depth chart this fall.