SAVANNAH, Georgia -- The Tigers of Savannah State completed their first and only scrimmage of the fall on Saturday at T.A. Wright Stadium ahead of their Aug. 30 season opener at Alabama-Birmingham.
Savannah State (3-8 overall, 3-5 in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in 2017) committed some expected pre-snap penalties and had some miscommunication in the receiving corps that coach Erik Raeburn said comes with the territory in preseason scrimmages.
“It was good for us to get out there and get in some live situations,” Raeburn said following the scrimmage, which began at 1 p.m. “For the defense, it was good to evaluate their tackling skills in live situations, and for the offense it was good for those guys to get to do some cut blocking and other things for us to evaluate their technique.”
Raeburn, now in his third year leading the Tigers, said that All-MEAC defensive end Stefen Banks (70 tackles, 18 for loss, 10 sacks in 2017) was held out of the scrimmage due to an infection in his finger. Banks, a senior, did not practice all week but will return to the practice field on Monday, Raeburn said.
Along with Banks, another senior defensive lineman in Brandon Carswell figures to be a premier playmaker on a Tiger defense under the direction of first-year defensive coordinator Shawn Quinn.
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