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Son of former Edison Viking gets play
Former Edison High star Derek Kennard, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys, has a son, Devon, who is a sophomore at USC. LA Times writer Gary Klein leads his notebook with Kennard’s progress on the Trojans’ defense. USC opens the season on Thursday at Hawaii.
By Gary Klein
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — The transition is complete.
Devon Kennard started one game at defensive end and four at outside linebacker as a USC freshman last season.
On Friday, Kennard officially was anointed as the starting middle linebacker when Coach Lane Kiffin released the depth chart for the Trojans’ opener at Hawaii on Thursday.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Kennard displaces junior Chris Galippo, who started every game last season. Galippo, however, is expected to play multiple snaps in a linebacker corps that also includes senior outside linebackers Malcolm Smith and Michael Morgan.
Kennard and Galippo had alternated with the first-unit defense throughout training camp, but Kennard this week began working almost exclusively at the spot.
“I’m just going with the flow, trying to get ready for (the opener),” Kennard said Thursday after the Trojans mock game at the Coliseum. “It’s game time now.”
Tailback Marc Tyler, a fourth-year junior who has been slowed by injuries at USC, will start for the first time.
Receiver Robert Woods and cornerback Nickell Robey are listed as starters and could become the first freshmen to start an opener for USC at those positions in the post World War II era, according to the USC sports information department.
The offensive line is in flux. Butch Lewis and Khaled Holmes are listed as the starting guards, but both are nursing injuries.