Will Ta'ufo'ou News

Cal's running backs extended a long tradition by carrying Holley off the field Friday, a ritual reserved for seniors and accompanied by much chuckling and good-natured grief.

Cal fullback Brian Holley missed his third consecutive practice Thursday, calling into question his status for Saturday's game at Minnesota.

The NFL preseason is finally over, and now we're playing for keeps. No more jersey typos , no more inconsistent collar colors , no more George Halas initials on the right sleeve instead of on the left where they belong , among several other uni glitches that showed up during the preseason.

The Bears signed seven players to the practice squad Sunday, including Northwestern and St.

Figuring out the practice squad, well, that is a pure guessing game. But that won't stop me from giving it a shot here.

Francis HIGH School in Mountain View in 2006, he had no football offers. "My choices were to walk on at Cal or to walk on at Stanford ," Boskovich said.

Backup quarterback Caleb Hanie picked up where he left off last preseason, scrambling around until he could make something happen.

In Will Ta'ufo'ou, the Cal football team lost a 6-foot, 255-pound fullback who could bulldoze a linebacker, surprise you with his speed, catch a pass out of the backfield and -- despite guiding 1,500-yard rushers in back-to-back years -- probably go unnoticed on campus.

All the fuss over Jay Cutler's debut Saturday in Buffalo overlooked one key thing.

Those expecting Jay Cutler to immediately transform the Chicago Bears into a pass-happy offense had better be patient.

In Will Ta'ufo'ou, the Cal football team lost a 6-foot, 255-pound fullback who could bulldoze a linebacker, surprise you with his speed, catch a pass out of the backfield and -- despite guiding 1,500-yard rushers in back-to-back years -- probably go unnoticed on campus.

We'll get in one more positional breakdown before we switch gears from this analysis for a few days and get into some other material we hope you find interesting, including Four Down Territory on Friday.

Center Olin Kreutz has been a staple in the Chicago Bears organization since the team drafted him out of Washington St.