Tuesday's practice was not as interesting as Monday's, but the Tigers did get a short scrimmage in Jordan Hare Stadium trying to give the two new quarterbacks a chance to separate themselves from one another.
The scrimmage focused on different game-type situations, blitz pick-ups and 7-on-7 pass scale defense.
With Marshall and Johnson getting the majority of the reps this week, the big focus is trying to see separation between the potential starting quarterback candidates.
Considering they both are similar style quarterbacks that may be harder than it sounds.
"Right now it all pretty much looks the same," offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee said. "We're running the same plays with pretty much all three of the guys rotating in there. Each one of those guys does things a little bit different but I would say right now I don't think there is any part of the offense that we could or could not run with either Jeremy or Nick over the other. I think both could fulfill the same role as far as running the offense."
A big factor on who is the starter could be who takes care of the football better, and right now both Marshall and Johnson have done a good job of that.
"Their ball security is a big focus point for us on offense, and I think they are doing a great job with that," center Reese Dismukes said. "They are competing their (butts) off, and whoever wins the job, may the best man win."
Ball security was a big concern for Marshall after he had 20 interceptions last season in junior college. But so far, Marshall has been focusing on taking care of the football.
"Nick's done well I think he has been very conscience of it," Lashlee said. "We only had them live for that first scrimmage and I don't think we had any turnover issues there, and then the other scrimmages we had the orange jerseys on, but we haven't been throwing a lot of interceptions either, which is a positive."
With the season quickly approaching it's getting to the point where a starting quarterback decision needs to be made.
Lashlee says they still do not have a timetable set for when a starter will be named, but the sooner the better. Right now they are still looking for separation. Since there is little separation in their physical abilities the coaches will be looking at their mental abilities to find what separation they can.
"We are looking for who is going to earn the respect of their teammates, who does the team believe in, who does the offense believe in, who is going to protect the ball and who do we feel like we can trust to execute the game plan, do what we ask them to do and play within the system," Lashlee said.
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