Rattlers coach will make game-day decision on receivers

Rattlers coach Kevin Guy won't say who his four receivers will be for Saturday's opener against the Spokane Shock at US Airways Center.

Kerry Reed appears to be the only given.

Rod Windsor still is on inactive reserve.

Jared Perry, it appears, is ready to return to the lineup after he played only two games last season and saw his role drastically reduced during the second half of the 2013 season.

Markee White and Chase Deadder were late arrivals to camp after the Rattlers got them to try to shore up a depleted receiving corps.

Windsor is day to day, Guy said. He worked out with the athletic trainer on Wednesday.

"We're going to take it all the way down to game day," Guy said on his receivers. "That's going to be every week. I push all of the decisions to the last minute."

Kicker signed

The Rattlers signed former Alabama kicker Jeremy Shelley, who beat out 13 other kickers in camp. He replaces Craig Ratanamorn, who retired two weeks before the start of camp.

Shelley's five field goals in Alabama's 21-0 victory over LSU in 2012 set a BCS National Championship Game record.

Shelley came back the next season to be part of another Alabama national championship team. In the 2012 regular season, he made 11 of 11 field-goal tries and all 63 extra points he attempted.

Return game

Deadder made the long drive last weekend after being traded from the Jacksonville Sharks.

"We had two, 15-hour-day drives," Deadder said.

He is excited be part of the three-time defending ArenaBowl champions.

Two years ago, he played for the Utah Blaze, and saw up close the intense rivalry between the teams.

"Arizona was the team you wanted to beat," Deadder said. "They were the best team. They've been the best team. So this is great."

Deadder is a good red-zone target for quarterback Nick Davila at 6-foot-5, 230 pounds.

Guy said he also likes Deadder at jack linebacker on defense, because of his size and "physicality."

Carvalho's return

Center Brennen Carvalho is back snapping the ball to Davila after three years in Philadelphia. Carvalho was Davila's center on the 2011 team that lost to the Jacksonville Sharks on the last play of the ArenaBowl. Since then, Carvalho was on two more runner-up teams with the Soul, losing twice to the Rattlers in the championship games in 2012 and '13.

He was signed as a free agent during the winter.

"It was tough losing ArenaBowls, period," he said. "It was tough losing to my team. We felt that that first year in 2011 and lost. So, they know that feeling and I know it three times losing."