Lee varsity vs Angleton scrimmage

Angleton is ranked 6th in the state for 4A coming into the season.  This is after they had a nice run through the playoffs last year.  They lost Terrence Franks and Henry Josey off of that offense though.

Quandre Diggs, Texas commit, is back to lead the offense and defense for the Wildcats.

One could suspect that Lee was going to struggle a lot with Angleton.
This was not the case however.

Lee played without the services of receiver Josh Zellars as near as I could tell.
Darrion Landry, another receiver, was hurt early on in the scrimmage and did not return

Lee came out of the gate throwing the fade route to Jaevon Richardson.  This was good to get them past midfield.  They struggled running the ball after that though and were turned away.  Throughout the scrimmage they were able to consistently get the ball to Richardson.  The Angleton pressure style of defense was made for the fade pattern to Richardson.  They also hit him across the middle a few times for first down conversions.  If this were a real game, I am certain Lee would have continued to expose the Angleton defense with the fade route.

The running game had its struggles for the most part.  Keith Johnson was able to pop a few past the initial Angleton blitz a few times, however Quandre Diggs is a really good safety.  It is tough to get past that last line of defense.

Quarterback Malcolm Ruben kept the ball a couple of times and was able to get a few yards running the ball.

Myron O'neal, soph receiver/db, nearly had a couple of deep balls, but just could not come down with them.  He will be able to make some of those plays as the season goes along.

The defense held up pretty well against an athlete like Diggs.  Diggs cannot really pass the ball that well, so that helped the cause.

Diggs was easily the fastest and most athletic player on the field.  This showed late in the scrimmage when he was able to break loose for a 60 yard td.

The first hour though Angleton could not move the ball well at all on the Ganders.

#55, defensive end, was impressive to me containing the edge and getting good pressure on the quarterback

#19, linebacker, also made some good plays.  He believe he also played some with the JV.  He deserves to be on varsity as he looked to have the most football smarts on the defense.  He may be small, but he was always around the ball and a very good tackler.

I am not familiar with a lot of the players' names, but the defense played some pretty good ball.

All in all, Lee looked pretty good against a tough opponent.  This was Angleton's second scrimmage and only the first for Lee, so we have to take that into account.  Also, Josh Zellars was out and he is one of the more important players on the team.  One other player I did not see was Anointe Franklin.  He looked good as a freshman last year, but I have not see him yet this year for the Ganders.