• Senior guard Jacob Alsadek and safety Dane Cruikshank have been invited to the East-West Shrine Game. The all-star showcase for draft prospects takes place Jan. 20 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
  • Junior cornerback Jace Whittaker made Pro Football Focus’ All-Pac-12 second team.
  • Rodriguez said freshman quarterbacks Donavan Tate and Rhett Rodriguez did not participate in Friday’s “Rookie Bowl I” but will in the next one, which could be Sunday. Rich Rodriguez said both are “in tune” with the offensive scheme because they’ve been on the travel squad all season.
  • The seniors handled the coaching in the rookie scrimmage. Rodriguez got a kick out it. “They took a lot of ownership,” he said. “I questioned a lot of play calls. We had a couple delay-of-game penalties, which was really bad coaching.”
  • Rodriguez continues to believe Dec. 20 will be the signing day for Arizona and others. “We’re projecting most of our class to sign on the 20th,” he said. And if someone doesn’t? “He ain’t committed to us,” Rodriguez said.
  • Arizona has 11 official visitors this weekend, the majority prospects who already have committed. The UA won’t have nearly as many as usual in January if most of the class is signed already, as Rodriguez projects.
  • Rodriguez’s old boss, former UA athletic director Greg Byrne, was in town for Saturday night’s basketball game against Alabama. “He’s probably wearing the wrong colors,” Rodriguez said. “You can be seen with him, but not cajoling too much with the enemy, so to speak.”

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