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Fall camp is underway for the University of Hawai'i football team and its season-opener at USC is less than a month away. HawaiiAthletics.com will breakdown the 2012 Warrior football team, position-by-position. Today's feature is the wide receivers and tight ends.
 
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Starters Returning: Justin Clapp, Trevor Davis, Jeremiah Ostrowski, Billy Ray Stutzmann
Starter Lost: Royce Pollard
Letterwinners Returning: Darius Bright (TE), Craig Cofer (TE), Scott Harding, Donnie King, Jr., Corey Paclebar, Allen Sampson
Redshirts: Chinedu Amadi, Cecil Doe, Chris Gant
Newcomers: Blakelyn Birks, Duke Bukoski, Clark Evans (TE), Ryan Hall (TE), Elijah Langley, Harold Moleni (TE), Ethan Watanabe (TE)
 
A position not lacking for talent this season is at wide receiver, where as many as seven players with starting experience return, including Billy Ray Stutzmann, who led the team in receptions a year ago.
 
The junior from Honolulu was the only receiver to start all 13 games last season and finished with a team-high 78 receptions for 910 yards and four touchdowns. He enters fall camp as the top “X” receiver.
 
Sophomore Trevor Davis started the final six games of last season and caught 28 passes for 366 yards and three touchdowns. He and Allen Sampson, a junior from Tampa, Fla., who started four games at slot and caught 18 passes for 186 yards, are penciled in behind Stutzmann at “X,” although Sampson has been hindered by a knee injury which may force him to miss part of the season.
 
Wideout Jeremiah Ostrowski, a senior from Honolulu who tallied 65 catches for 687 yards and five scores with six starts, is among the candidates to start the flex “F” position. Also among that group is tight end Clark Evans, a junior from Los Alamitos, Calif.
 
Sophomore Scott Harding, a first-team Freshman All-American punt returner, had an excellent spring and enters fall camp as the top “Z” receiver. Behind him are redshirt Chris Gant, a redshirt junior from Long Beach, Calif., and Justin Clapp, a junior from Concord, Calif., who made seven starts and finished with 38 catches for 356 yards and four TDs last season. Clapp missed most of the spring due to injury.
 
An important component of the pro-set offense is the tight end, a position that was missing in the run-and-shoot offense that the Warriors ran for more than a dozen years. Following the spring practices, Craig Cofer, a junior from Livermore, Calif., emerged as the leading candidate. A converted defensive lineman, Cofer appeared in two games in a back-up role last season.
 
However, two newcomers have emerged since the start of camp. Harold Moleni, a native of West Valley City, Utah, was an all-state selection out of Hunter High School where he started every single game for three straight years. After a two-year church mission, he's back on the field and should contribute as true freshman.

Also in the mix is Duke transfer Ryan Hall, a surprise addition to the team who graduated from Duke in three years. The Orlando, Fla., native is taking advantage of the NCAA's graduate transfer rule which allows him to play this season. After redshirting in 2009, Hall was a member of the scout team in 2010 and appeared in all 12 games primarily on special teams last season.
 
Also competing at tight end are Darius Bright, a senior from Fayetteville, N.C., who made seven starts at wideout last year but missed the majority of the season due to various injuries. Ethan Watanabe, who is splitting time between fullback and tight end, adds depth.