Lehigh Position Analysis: Defensive Front Seven

Spotlight On: DE Tyler Cavenas and NG Jimmy Mitchell

This past year, the NCAA mandated that two-a-day practices would no longer be allowed, which naturally has changed the way Lehigh has been camping this August.  "A single day may include a single, three-hour, on-field practice session and a walk-through. During walk-throughs, protective equipment such as helmets and pads can’t be worn, and contact is prohibited," the NCAA said.

“The guys like the new procedure, the new process we have in place here,” head coach Andy Coen said. “The guys are more fresh not having the two-a-days. [Sunday] was the first day we went full pads and had live tackling and the kids were fired up about that. We didn’t do a lot, just enough to get our feet wet.”

With no contact during the two-hour walkthrough session, pads and contact are a more rare occurrence.  To senior DE Tyler Cavenas, though, what did that mean?

"I [still] feel like we can push ourselves," he told LehighSports.com.  "It's weird, we have these walkthroughs now, but I think when we do go out, we'll be more intense out here and we'll be getting after it more.  We're only going to be out here one practice a day, so we'll have to give it all we have."

Knowing Tyler, he does.
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