University of Connecticut Athletics
August 18 Football Practice Report
8/18/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
STORRS, Conn. (August 18, 2007) -- The University of Connecticut football team held its second full scrimmage of the fall to cap off a two-a-day session in Storrs on Saturday.
The morning's practice was very brief and consisted entirely of special teams drills as UConn ran the full gamut of punt, punt return, kickoff coverage and kickoff return. In the afternoon, the Huskies ran 115 plays worth of scrimmaging.
"We got a lot of good work in today in terms of the number of plays," head coach Randy Edsall said. "We didn't have the production that we were looking for from the offensive point of view but I thought the defense did a good job. We just have to make sure that we keep working. We have three more practices before our final scrimmage on Wednesday at the stadium and then we get ready to go for Duke."
UConn wide receivers coach Matt Cersosimo was back at practice today after his wife, Megan, delivered the couple's first child on Friday, a boy named Brady Campbell.
UConn will take Sunday off and return to the field on Monday for the final two-a-day session of the fall. The team will have a single practice on Tuesday and then scrimmage on Wednesday at Rentschler Field to conclude fall camp. The team will be off on Thursday and begin preparation for the season opener against Duke on Friday.
NOTE: With several injuries to their defensive line, the Jacksonville Jaguars signed former UConn defensive end Tyler King on Friday. King could make his Jaguars debut as soon as tonight in the team's preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Jacksonville Municipal (formerly Alltel) Stadium. King played for UConn from 2001-04, capping his career in style by being named the UAW Lineman of the Game in UConn's 2004 Motor City Bowl win over Toledo. King has since spent time on the Arizona Cardinals' practice squad and played two years in NFL Europe.
King brings the count of former Huskies currently in NFL training camps to seven as he joins Deon Anderson (Dallas), Ray Blagman (Arizona), Alfred Fincher (New Orleans), James Hargrave (Detroit), Sean Mulcahy (Cincinnati) and Dan Orlovsky (Detroit).
