Bison deep at cornerback

By Jeff Kolpack

January 13, 2008 at 11:00 PM

It was just two months ago when the rule for the North Dakota State cornerbacks was don't get hurt. There was nobody with experience on the depth chart after John Richardson, Nate Agbetola and David Earl.

That's changed for two reasons: Derrius Colvin and Richard Bowman are healing from season-ending injuries and Courtney Mitchell has returned to school.

"It will be drastically different next year," said NDSU head coach Craig Bohl. "We'll have a little more depth."

Freshman Daniel Eaves, who made a bid to play as a true freshman before getting hurt in fall practice, will enter his redshirt freshman season.

That's six cornerbacks in all.

Moreover, Melvin Thomas, who was part of the 2007 recruiting class but did not meet NCAA academic certification standards, has enrolled this semester. He'll probably be a strong safety.

For more on this story, see tomorrow's Forum.

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By Jeff Kolpack

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.