Hello again! Your Washington State Cougars football team took part in its first spring scrimmage of 2022 on Saturday, and many guys throughout the roster did their level best to make the most of the opportunity they got. Among them were guys who you probably have never heard of, and if everything in 2022 goes to plan, will only get on the field in the waning minutes of blowouts.

The Spokesman Review’s Colton Clark took notice of them, and led his scrimmage recap on that topic.

About two hours and 100 snaps into its first spring scrimmage, Washington State sent out a lineup of deep reserves for a final possession.

Chris Irvin, a redshirt freshman quarterback from Coeur d’Alene, capped the drive in style, lofting a high-arching, 25-yard pass to the far corner of the end zone and connecting with Bode Brewer, a fresh-faced walk-on receiver from Burlington, Washington, who made perhaps the play of the day. He extended his arms in stride, hauling in a finger-tip touchdown grab while crashing to the turf.

Video below!

I don’t want to make any sweeping generalizations about the onset of the Jake Dickert era, or try and infer much from the first live event in what will be the 2022 season, but it seems telling that the players who only got a few plays at the very end of a long scrimmage were hanging it out as if they were playing in the Rose Bowl. What happened next was also pretty cool.

Both sidelines emptied and all of the Cougars converged, swarming Brewer in a congratulatory mosh.

Hopefully there is a lot of teammate-mobbing during the regular season!

So, was there anything else Cougar fans were looking to see from the scrimmage? Oh yeah, that new quarterback. According to the official stats, Cameron Ward had a pretty darn good day, completing 67% of his 21 passes for 155 yards (7.4 ypa), with two touchdowns and one interception.

As one might expect, Ward took a bit to settle into a groove.

At first, the Cougars’ defense had the upper hand. Ward…