McGrath was hit and miss in my preseason week 1 notes. But then again, none of our pass catchers looked completely perfect, which you'd expect in the first preseason game. Hawkblogger is almost as invested in fluffing McGrath as he was in Flynn last year, which probably means that he's seen good things in practices. That said, I thought McGrath was a shade above "meh" last preseason and a shade below that last week. Even guys like Kregg Lumpkin and Charly Martin can look great in preseason play. I need to see that level of preseason playmaking from McGrath before I get even mildly excited about having him on our final roster.
I keep hearing about Willson being a factor in practices but it didn't show in the first preseason game. He didn't know how to separate and seemed incapable of locating the soft spots in coverage when his QB was buying time. Poor hands. Blocking was mediocre as expected.
Helfet looks like a miniaturized Zach Miller physically, and that's pretty much the only nice thing I can say about him.
Some TE out of WSU looked like he was nowhere near NFL caliber talent wise, but gave really nice effort and made a positive difference. Kind of sad though when maybe your best TE in the game has CFL level tools. Before that game, I was only slightly worried about TE, but now I see it as a glaring problem, one that could hobble the team if Miller misses time.