Notebook: Quarterback race, depth chart begins to take shape as Southern closes camp with team scrimmage

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Southern's quarterback race may be hitting its final stages.

With two weeks until the Jaguars go to Fort Worth, Texas, to take on TCU for the season opener, coach Dawson Odums said his staff will evaluate the scrimmage film and begin to make a depth chart.

Odums fell short of saying a starter would be named any time soon, maintaining the strategy of letting the race play out in the first few games.

“We’ll have a better plan of how we’ll do it,” Odums said. “Whether we name a starter or not, that’s not first on the agenda. It’s about having a plan that allows our offense to execute at a high level. Whatever that plan is, whether that’s naming a starter, understanding or shortening down the playbook or being able to call plays according to what each guy is good at.”

Southern listed John Lampley, Bubba McDaniel and Ladarius Skelton as the top three quarterbacks at the start of preseason camp.

As he’s done all preseason, Lampley took most of the first-team snaps in Saturday's scrimmage with McDaniel running with the second team and Skelton with the third. McDaniel got limited time with first-team snaps while Skelton took a few near the end of the day.

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