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Five takeaways from Wisconsin’s Week 1 depth chart

It’s Game Week, and we have a depth chart:

Welcome to our first official College Football Monday of the year. It’s game week for Luke Fickell and the 2023 Wisconsin Badgers. In five days’ time, the Buffalo Bulls will stand on the opposing sideline as the season kicks off at Camp Randall Stadium.

This year has a different feel. Not only is Fickell a far different energy than Paul Chryst, the social media team churning out new inside looks every day and Phil Longo bringing a new energy to town, but for the first time in nearly a decade Wisconsin’s game-week press conference wasn’t opened with ‘excited for the opportunity to play football.’

Say what you want about the end of the Chryst era and how he carried himself in front of the media. That line was always one of the highlights of my week.

Related: Predicting every Big Ten team’s 2023 wins and losses, final record and the conference champ, Final Wisconsin football 2023 game-by-game predictions

Another bright spot on the path towards Saturday’s game is the release of the depth chart.

Instead of just presenting it as is, I’m here today to give five takeaways from the Week 1 two-deep:

Pittsburgh Steelers release Week 1 depth chart

The Pittsburgh Steelers released their Week 1 depth chart ahead of the matchup versus the New York Giants.

Week 1 versus the New York Giants is so close we can taste it. Though there are still some unconfirmed starting positions, the Steelers released their first depth chart of the season for their matchup at MetLife Stadium.

Perhaps the most notable training camp battle was that of the starting right tackle position. It appears that still hasn’t been decided, according to the charts released by the team on Monday. While the depth chart does have Zach Banner’s name before Chuks Okorafor’s, the “OR” is glaring.

“Yeah, you may see OR listed on that depth chart on Monday, meaning O-R,” Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said at the close of training camp last week.

And that’s precisely how it’s listed. The same goes for starting tight ends (Eric Ebron, Vance McDonald), backup at left tackle (behind Matt Feiler) and kick returner (Anthony McFarland, Ray-Ray McCloud).

There’s still plenty of time for the ultimate decision to be made, as the Steelers don’t kick off their season until Sept. 14.

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