Scrimmage to test LSU football on stability

Yet Tigers coach Les Miles isn't inclined to lay out the criteria his slightly shuffled staff used as gauges for the assessing progress two weeks into spring workouts along Skip Bertman Drive.

"I want to seep physicality and the ability to throw it and run it, tackle it and hold on to the ball," Miles said early Thursday.

Clearly, any hints at tweaks or alterations to an offensive scheme under new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron would be met with interest, but it's unlikely -— based on Miles' statements — that the scrimmage would allow anyone to glean greater insights.

Right now, the plan is for the unit to operate solely out of first-and-10 situations, and not dig too deep into the play-call chart Saturday.

"We're going to call the things we've been calling to this point and see if we can execute it," Miles said. "That would be the basic plan."

At quarterback, senior Zach Mettenberger is entrenched on the topline of the depth chart, but any scrimmage work might be an early metric to deciding a pecking order further down the list between sophomore Stephen Rivers, early enrollee freshmen Hayden Rettig and Anthony Jennings.

Asked whether the assessment is based on which of the trio looks better overall or in specific packages out of the playbook, Miles remained cryptic.