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QBs Will Be the Focus of Cal Spring Ball, Starting March 12

Cal announces the dates of its 15-practice spring session, which lasts four weeks

Jake Curtis

QB Devin Brown, a transfer from Ohio State
QB Devin Brown, a transfer from Ohio State / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
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Cal posted the schedule for its spring football practices on Tuesday, and the focus with be on one position: quarterback.

The Bears' 15-practice spring football session will begin on Wednesday, March 12 and will conclude on Saturday, April 12. Unlike last year, when spring ball was split into two two-week sessions with a gap in the middle, spring ball this year will continue for four continuous weeks.

Cal Pro Day is scheduled for March 20. On that day, Cal players hoping to play in the NFL will go through tests and drills in front of NFL scouts.

The big question going into spring ball revolves around the quarterback position. Highly regarded incoming freshman Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele and Ohio State transfer Devin Brown are both in Berkeley, and presumably both will participate in spring ball, along with junior college transfer Dominic Ingrassia and returning freshman EJ Cominong. Gone is Cal's 2024 starter Fernando Mendoza, who transferred to Indiana. Chandler Rogers and CJ Harris also entered the transfer portal, although neither has found a new home.

As significnt as the two additions at quarterback is the addition of new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Bryan Harsin, a former head coach at Auburn and Boise State who is tasked with getting Cal's offense in gear after the Bears finished 14th among 17 ACC teams in scoring.

Harsin is not the only new Cal assistnt coach as Justin Wilcox has remade his entire offensive coaching staff with offseason hires.

Besides the quarterback position, focus will be on Jaydn Ott, who is returning for his fourth season at Cal after an injury-plagued 2024 season limited him to 385 rushing yards after running for 1,315 yards in 2023.

A number of other positions will be manned by some of the 20 transfers that have come to Cal from four-year colleges and three incoming junior college transfers.

Here is the Cal spring schedule, which notes tha Cal Day, when incoming students are welcomed, is Saturday, April 19.

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Jake Curtis
JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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