Discussing Arizona State’s Wednesday Practice and Injury News

Below is a partial transcript of coach Dillingham's talk with media on Wednesday.

On Practice Intensity

"I've been happy with practice. I've been happy with the physicality of practice. I've happy with the guys that are questionable, maybe not getting reps, you know, watching reps and being dialed in. So yeah, I'm excited. We got a good football team coming in here. We better. Doesn't matter who takes the field, you better be ready to strap it up and play sixty minutes football."

On Jaren Hamilton, Other Receivers Stepping Up, Jordyn Tyson Injury

"He had a good week, I think a bunch of people have to step up. And it can't just be him, you know, you can't just replace Jordyn Tyson with one person, right? So you got to have a group and a team effort to replace, you know, 10-15 yards at a time."

On Tyson's Status Moving Forward

"I'm not ready to comment on that right now. This is something I'm, you know, trying to protect him from himself. There's a competitor out there, you know, play headlines the end of last game, making plays. So this is something that, you know, we're making a decision to kind of protect him from him a little because he is such a competitor."

On Special Teams Unit

"Yeah, I think our special teams experience have been juice. They've been amped. You know, you wish that you could just, like, flip a switch and be good at something. So does that mean hard work does not translate to success?

Hard work gives you the best opportunity to be successful. So I think this week, the way that we worked on special teams is going to give us the best opportunity to be successful. Is these two days enough to be successful. I don't know, right, but I know that we couldn't have worked harder. We couldn't have done more. So from that perspective, I'm excited to see that unit play."

On Tyson's Leadership While Out

"That's huge. I mean, the respect they have for him. I mean, you're around the top wide receiver goes football for the draft this year, anytime you're around that guy, that's something we better learn from, because there's not many of them. So you better soak in what he saying, and you better you better learn what he's telling you.

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