San Jose State University\u2019s football team ended its second week of training camp at CEFCU Stadium on Saturday, and\u00a0first-year Spartans defensive coordinator Bojay Filimoeatu had high praise for several players, including Caleb Womack.<\/p>\n
Womack, a redshirt senior cornerback who was named a Mountain West Conference (MWC) Scholar-Athlete each of the past three years, is poised to see an increase in action this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big star in the back end is Womack,\u201d Filimoeatu said. \u201cWomack has stepped up. You know, he\u2019s always gonna play like it\u2019s the last play of his career. He has that standard, whatever he\u2019s doing, whether it\u2019s special teams, defense \u2026 He has been a rockstar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spartans head coach Ken Niumatalolo said he likes he\u2019s seeing from from his cornerbacks as they continue to fight for playing time.<\/p>\n
Womack (5-fooot-10, 180 pounds) is one of nine players listed on SJSU\u2019s roster at cornerback. The others include redshirt senior Kejuan Bullard, Jr., senior Runye Norton; juniors Francois Jones, Jr., and Jayden Robertson; redshirt sophomores Greco Carrillo, Isaiah Buxton and Jonathan Watts; and freshman Cole Gholar.<\/p>\n
Buxton previously attended San Diego State University, and Watts was at Idaho State before joining the Spartans last season. Norton, Jones, and Robertson are former JUCO players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of depth back there,\u201d Niumatalolo said.<\/p>\n
Womack has played in 23 games over the past two seasons, primarily on special teams. He made seven tackles for the Spartans (3-9 overall, 2-6 MWC) last season, including six solo stops.<\/p>\n
The Spartans open their season against USC at L.A. Memorial Coliseum on Aug. 29 at noon. The game will be televised on NBC Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose State University\u2019s football team ended its second week of training camp at CEFCU Stadium on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[61426,88,90,89,170484,170485],"class_list":["post-428285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-jim-seimas","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-state-university-cornerback-caleb-womack","tag-spartans-defensive-coordinator-bojay-filimoeatu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}