FSU’s Maguire returns to practice
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Two weeks after breaking a bone in his right foot, Sean Maguire returned to preseason practices for No. 4 Florida State.
The senior quarterback did team and individual drills during Friday’s session. When Maguire was hurt Aug. 11, coach Jimbo Fisher said he expected Maguire to miss 3-4 weeks.
Maguire, who had a screw placed in his foot on Aug. 15, started five games of the final six games last season as he completed 59.3 percent of his passes with 11 touchdowns and six interceptions. Redshirt freshman Deondre Francois is still expected to start the Sept. 5 opener in Orlando against 11th-ranked Mississippi, but if Maguire is available for that game it could ease Fisher’s mind. Currently backing up Francois are sophomore J.J. Cosentino and freshman walk-on Jake Rizzo. Freshman Malik Henry remains indefinitely suspended for what Fisher called a violation of team rules.
PRUKOP UP NEXT FOR DUCKS
Montana State graduate transfer Dakota Prukop is listed atop Oregon’s depth chart at quarterback for the season opener.
The No. 24 Ducks released the depth chart for the first week of the season Friday. Prukop was listed ahead of freshman Justin Herbert on the two-deep for the home game against UC Davis on Sept. 3.
Prukop passed for 3,025 yards and 28 touchdowns with 10 interceptions at Montana State last year. He also rushed for 774 yards and 11 touchdowns for the Big Sky team that finished 5-6.
He follows in the footsteps of Oregon’s starter for the opener last season, Vernon Adams, a graduate transfer from Eastern Washington.
Herbert, a local prospect out of Sheldon High School in Eugene, threw for 3,170 yards and 37 touchdowns as a senior last year. He won the backup job over redshirt freshman Travis Jonsen and freshman Terry Wilson, who had both played in Oregon’s annual spring game.
“Justin’s done a great job of not putting the ball into tight (situations),” Oregon quarterbacks coach David Yost told the media earlier this week.
Yost also said that Prukop, and the whole group, had shown progress over fall camp.
“The first week of two-a-days we threw it away too many times,” he said. “But we’ve steadily gotten better and better.”
AUBURN DB ARRESTED
Auburn defensive back
Stephen Roberts has been charged with attempting to elude an officer and possessing a firearm without a license. Auburn Police Capt.
Lorenza Dorsey said Friday that the 20-year-old Roberts was a passenger in a vehicle during a traffic stop and attempted to flee from the officer. The arrest report shows Roberts was arrested Wednesday at 9:53 p.m. and the firearm was a handgun. Both charges are misdemeanors. Auburn spokesman Kirk Sampson says coach Gus Malzahn “is gathering all of the facts and will handle the situation appropriately.”
Roberts has been competing for the starting job at free safety. He started the final four games last season and made 26 tackles.
Malzahn has said four players arrested on misdemeanor drug charges in May won’t miss playing time.