The Trojans primarily ran the ball last season, finishing with 586 running plays as compared to 59 pass attempts. DeHart was their regular QB, but he was also one of five players to tally at least 500 rushing yards, recording 79 carries for 531 yards and eight touchdowns.
“He’s gonna play quarterback for us some and then we’re gonna put him out at receiver, and heck, we’re gonna put him at running back some,” said Barnes of DeHart. “… We’re gonna move him around a little bit, and he’s gonna play defensive back for us.
“And then we have Parker Styborski, he’s just a long, lean kid who moves well and does other things well,” he added. “I’m excited to see what he does.”
Styborski particularly excelled on defense in 2019, hauling in two of the Trojans’ nine interceptions as a team. Meanwhile, senior Keelan Henrickson is a guy who can “do just about anything,” according to Barnes.
“He’s probably gonna be either a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon one day,” said Barnes of Henrickson. “He knows every position on the field, we could stick him at quarterback and he’d probably do well there, but he plays everything from a strong safety to a corner(back) to a slot receiver, running back. He kinda does it all and we expect big things from him.
“Guys like that are what make a team run efficient because sometimes you can take a guy like that and put him in a spot and he might not be the biggest or strongest or fastest athlete out there, but he’s gonna do as well in that spot as anybody could do,” he continued. “So I’m excited about that aspect of it, but I think we’ve got some good returners coming back that can do some good things for us.”