Lots of angles to address before Saturday’s game.

I’ll have a story in tomorrow’s print edition on the development of Davon Morgan, a Varina High graduate and the only other Virginia Tech true freshman besides Tyrod Taylor who is playing right now. I’ll have my regular game preview in Saturday’s fishwrap, focusing on senior wide receiver Eddie Royal lobbying his coaches to get him the ball.

But first, an angle that seemed to surprise some of us hacks this week when coach Frank Beamer said right tackle Ed Wang could play Saturday at Clemson. Here’s the latest, based on what Beamer said moments ago on the ACC coaches teleconference ...

On how Wang looked yesterday in his first full-contact practice—“He looked rusty. I think he felt good. His ankle felt good. It felt good after practice. I don’t know if we can get enough rust off of there to be in this type of football game.”

In what ways did Wang look rusty?—“One-on-one pass protection. He hadn’t played football in seven or eight weeks. You can just tell with the pace of the game, how fast it is out there, he’s not quite back up to speed on that.”

Interesting stuff there. So it appears as though Tech might have to settle for Wang returning Oct. 13 at Duke—his originally scheduled return. I’ll have a quick story on Wang in tomorrow’s rag.

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Because I know most of you can’t get enough Taylor tidbits, I’ll have some leftovers later today in this space from my story that ran in today’s print edition. That includes the highlights of an excellent interview last night with quarterbacks coach Mike O’Cain, one of the most helpful coaches I’ve ever been around.

So keep an eye out for that. Time for me to start hacking away on this Morgan story now.

Oh, and be sure to join me at noon for our “Lunch With ... “ chat. It’s a couple clicks back on the main sports page. And you don’t have to be eating lunch to do it, lest some crumbs fall in the keyboard and short-circuit it.

One more shill job, if I may: Our “Coll Cast” video will air later today on the site. Mike Harris, Jeff White and myself aren’t exactly Jim Lampley, Lennox Lewis and Larry Merchant, but we try.