Uneven performance by Tech offense in scrimmage

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson and quarterbacks and B-backs coach Bryan Cook were less than enthused with the offense’s play, although key spots, namely center and B-back, were manned by walk-ons or freshmen.

“We knew we didn’t have a B-back that had ever taken a snap before, and at times it looked like it,” Cook said. “Some other times they made some plays and did some decent things, but the quarterback position in general, we’d like to have gotten more out of it with the experience that we have at that position for a scrimmage.”

Cook said reps were spread out among quarterbacks Justin Thomas, Tim Byerly, Matthew Jordan and Chase Martenson. Thomas played only “a couple series,” Johnson said. Jordan quarterbacked the only touchdown drive.

“Whether or not he led the drive, I don’t know,” Cook said.

It was the first-ever scrimmage for the early-enrollee freshmen, including B-back Quaide Weimerskirch. Cook said he was overwhelmed at first by the speed of the scrimmage but gradually improved. As for C.J. Leggett, the redshirt freshman B-back, Johnson said he was “O.K., nothing great. He got a little better as the thing went along. Not sure he had a lot of places to go.”

Johnson was hardly alarmed.