Indiana is going to enter fall camp with a healthy football team.
The Hoosiers were shorthanded in the spring, especially on the defensive side of the ball, a factor that contributed to the offense having a bit of edge in the spring game.
But with fall camp set to open on July 31, new head coach Curt Cignetti says he’ll have all hands on deck with the 2024 season just a month away.
“Everybody is back and in the summer conditioning program,” Cignetti said on Thursday at Big Ten Media Day.
The main five players who missed the spring practice sessions included offensive lineman Nick Kidwell, linebacker Jailin Walker, and defensive linemen, Lanell Carr, James Carpenter and Venson Sneed.
All five appear to have a chance to start, or at least be key contributors in 2024.
Kidwell will play a seventh season of college football this fall after transferring in from James Madison. He was on the 2023 Outland Trophy preseason watch list before suffering a week four injury. He has appeared in 52 games with 34 starts, with the last 34 appearances all being starts.
Another JMU transfer, Walker was also hurt midseason but finished 2023 with 55 total tackles, 4.5 for a loss, 1.5 sacks and 4.0 pass breakups and was named to the All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention list.
A defensive tackle, Carpenter is a third JMU transfer who missed the spring. In 2023 he was named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team after he finished the season with 48 total tackles, nine tackles for loss, four sacks, six QB hits, four pass breakups, two fumbles recovered and an interception.
Carr appeared in 12 games for IU last season with 10 starts. He had 33 tackles and five sacks from the edge in the largest role of his career after transferring in from West Virginia.
Sneed hasn’t had a significant role to this point in his career — two seasons at Indiana. A versatile defensive lineman, he appears to be a candidate to crack the two-deep on the depth chart this fall.
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