Basic scrimmage notes, 8/15

I'll do this in stages as before.

STAGE ONE

• Reporters were not allowed access, so all information below is unconfirmed.
  
  
• The offense won, 30ish to 28.
  
  
• Kodi Burns scored a touchdown from the Wildcat position.
  
  
• TB Eric Smith scored on a run.
  
  
• QB Chris Todd worked exclusively with the first-team offense tonight. That span lasted approximately six drives.
  
  
• QB Tyrik Rollison commanded several drives after that.
  
  
• QB Neil Caudle worked "at the end," Chizik said.
  
  
• QB Clint Moseley didn't play.
  
  
• Todd hooked up with Montez Billings for a red-zone touchdown.
  
  
• Mario Fannin said all passes were completed tonight. He approximated the number of passes at 10. Gus Malzahn told me "he wasn't counting," then laughed as he walked out the door. (He was on his way out.) When I asked Todd, he laughed and said he couldn't remember any incompletions.
  
  
• Gene Chizik singled out S Daren Bates and DB Demond Washington for their play.
  
  
• P Clinton Durst, H Clayton Crofoot and WR John Cubelic have been put on scholarship.
  
  
• Semi-confirmed touchdowns:
  • Ben Tate run
    
  • Eric Smith run
    
  • Kodi Burns run
    
  • Montez Billings pass from Chris Todd
    
  • Unknown receiver pass from Tyrik Rollison

STAGE TWO

• Malzahn on Rollison: "Tyrik got a lot of reps. We talked about it. We're still evaluating him. We'll continue to do that. He did a solid job. He made a really good on a throw and it went for a touchdown. He held the ball a little long a couple times, but that comes from experience. In high school, you can get away with that. We'll get that corrected."
  
  
• Trooper Taylor on Burns: "He caught the ball really well. There's some fundamental things he needs to do really well to get his arm over and not get jammed up and things like that. So it's pretty impressive to see Kodi do what he does out there without very much reps. He has to stay late and come early to work on the releases and things like that because he's still doing the things with the quarterbacks. You've got to appreciate that about a kid like that."
  
  
• Daren Bates on how far he's come in a week: "I was lost those first couple days. I got help from Mike McNeil and watching them practice and every night studying the playbook so those two things, put it together, as time goes down the line, I'm going to get better every day because (Tommy Thigpen) is teaching me things and Mike McNeil is helping me out."
  
  

Photo credit: Todd Van Emst/Auburn University