With Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year Will Sutton announcing he will return to Arizona State for his senior year, which surprised me, it seemed like a good time to go ahead and list returning starter numbers for 2013.
There is some fudge factor here because many teams list more than 11 guys on either or both sides of the ball. And this doesn't take into account guys who missed all or much of the year with injuries, such as USC DE Devon Kennard, Washington DE Hau’oli Jamora or Colorado WR Paul Richardson.
And a couple of guys might still announce they will enter the NFL draft.
So here we go.
Arizona: 6 offense, 11 defense, no specialists
Big names: RB Ka'Deem Carey, WR Austin Hill, LB Jake Fischer
Arizona State: 7 offense, 8 defense, kicker
Big names: DT Will Sutton, QB Taylor Kelly, TE Chris Coyle, DE Carl Bradford, S Alden Darby
California: 5 offense, 6 defense, 2 secialists
Big names: DE Deandre Coleman, RB Brendan Bigelow, OLB Chris McCain, K Vince D'Amato
Colorado: 9 offense, 7 defense, 2 specialists
Big names: DE Chidera Uzo-Diribe, CB Kenneth Crawley
Oregon: 8 offense, 7 defense, kicker
Big names: QB Marcus Mariota, RB/WR De'Anthony Thomas, WR Josh Huff, C Hroniss Grasu, CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu
Oregon State: 8 offense, 7 defense, 2 specialists
Big names: WR Brandin Cooks, RB Storm Woods, DE Scott Crichton, LB D.J. Alexander
Stanford: 7 offense, 8 defense, kicker
Big names: QB Kevin Hogan, OT David Yankey, LB Shayne Skov, DE Ben Gardner, S Ed Reynolds
UCLA: 6 offense, 6 defense, kicker
Big names: QB Brett Hundley, OG Xavier Su'a-Filo, OLB Anthony Barr, LB Eric Kendricks
USC: 8 offense, 8 defense, kicker
Big names: WR Marqise Lee, RB Silas Redd, DE Morgan Breslin, DT Leonard Williams, LB Dion Bailey
Utah: 6 offense, 6 defense, no specialists
Big names: WR Dres Anderson, DB Brian Blechen, LB Trevor Riley, S Eric Rowe
Washington: 10 offense, 8 defense, 2 specialists
Big names: QB Keith Price, RB Bishop Sankey, WR Kasen Williams, TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins, NT Danny Shelton, LB Shaq Thompson
Washington State: 9 offense, 9 defense, 2 specialists
Big names: QB Connor Halliday, WR Gabe Marks, S Deone Bucannon, K Andrew Furney