Price has stepped forward as the leader of the group.

“He’s really ... the most mature of the young men in the room,” Grant said. “(He) has kind of taken that role upon himself and really has worked with them all summer with teaching and calling his own meetings in there and working with those guys. So I know what he can do, and he’s been in the game for the past two years doing things. So he’s very capable of being the playmaker that we’re looking for.”

Price already liked to speak up, he said, but he has become even more of a vocal leader with Gentry and Maulhardt gone.

“I don’t want to take anything away from them, but we make it our personal goal in the wide receiver room to be better than last year,” Price said. “We had a lot of success last year, but there were also a lot of downfalls and we didn’t finish out the season how we wanted to, and I think as far as playmaking ability, that’s something that we want to take a lot of pride in going into next season.”

One area in particular where Gentry will be missed is on scramble plays, where Allen churned out highlight after highlight last season, almost always with Gentry on the back end.