Weekly stock report
Week 2 stock report: Cam Edwards is the easy answer, the passing defense is the uncomfortable one
Stock up
- Cam Edwards: 202 yards from scrimmage and the offense’s clearest source of oxygen.
- Dion Crawford: Eight tackles and four TFLs, the kind of downhill game that makes the defensive identity feel real.
- Kenny Soares Jr.: Seven tackles, three TFLs, and a lot of dirty work that turned Eastern’s run game into a rumor.
- Tre Bell: The pick-six was the loud play, but the role itself keeps looking smarter.
- Braylon Collier: Six catches for 81 and a touchdown. He is graduating from “young guy to watch” to actual piece.
- Mansour at the podium: Another press conference that gave reporters substance without feeding on players.
Stock watch
- Pass defense: Three picks do not erase 304 yards allowed. The front helped. The back end still leaked.
- Third-quarter offense: The game went from controlled to twitchy very quickly.
- Cam Edwards usage: It is weird to list a 202-yard day here, but MSU cannot forget him for stretches.
- Fredrick Moore: Two targets, two drops. Not a public crisis, but he needs a clean week.
- Rhys Dakin: Massive leg, too many touchbacks. The talent is obvious. The steering wheel is still loose.
- Interior protection: One early whiff from Trent Fraley became a third-down sack. The concern did not disappear.
Hold
Leo Hannan stays in the middle in the healthiest way. Two touchdowns and some excellent quarterbacking stretches, especially the KK Smith throw, but also a bad interception and a game plan that asked him to manage more than hunt. The right read is probably boring: promising, still young, still learning.
Jayden Savoury was more involved, with six catches, but the explosive mismatch version has not shown up yet. That does not mean the staff was wrong. It means development is less cinematic than preseason camp stories make it sound.