With NFL camps having opened within the past week, player profiles are plenty — The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun focuses on UW-Stout cornerback Tony Beckham, trying to hang onto his starting spot with the Titans ahead of Adam Jones, while The Tacoma (Wash.) News-Tribune talks about Trinity (Texas) wide receiver Jerheme Urban’s “crusade for enlightenment” with the Seattle Seahawks.

Neither trains at a Division III school, however. Baltimore trains at McDaniel, Buffalo at St. John Fisher, Green Bay at St. Norbert, Indianapolis at Rose-Hulman and Kansas City at UW-River Falls. Pittsburgh trains at St. Vincent, which is neither Division III nor has football, but will be by 2007.

Doug Dougherty’s College Notebook in The Roanoke (Va.) Times lists one of many position battles we’re monitoring as Kickoff 2005 approaches.

Bridgewater (Va) Eagles Head Coach Mike Clark will have to choose a new quarterback to replace graduated Brandon Wakefield. Will he choose senior Jacob Lewis or sophomore Jeff Highhill? Both are pictured in the tremendous picture (Lewis at left, Highill at right) courtesy of Eagles’ fansite Bridgewaterfootball.com.

Either way Clark is confident the Eagles have enough returning pieces on offense. “We’re in a position where the quarterback doesn’t have to be a magic man,” he told the Times.

Bridgewater isn’t the only team with a key position battle taking place in training camp. Each of the other 226 teams will have similar subplots unfold on their quiet, hot campuses.

And D3football.com will bring you the story from each and every one in our upcoming Season Preview. Stay tuned for more information on this exciting product shortly.

I just found out that Johns Hopkins has started publishing an athletics blog, and from there discovered links to McDaniel and Centennial Conference blogs as well. As relative veterans of blogging ourselves (I refuse to use the media-created term blogosphere), D3football.com and D3hoops.com would like to welcome them aboard. We’ll add them to the links on both Daily Dose blogs when we get the chance.