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- Arizona is one of 12 FBS teams returning its head coach, offensive coordinator, defensive coordinator, and starting quarterback from last season. - Noah Fifita returns as Arizona's fifth-year quarterback and the nation's active career touchdown-pass leader while pursuing the program's all-time passing-yardage record. - Arizona's secondary lost four NFL draft picks after a 22-interception season, but the new defensive-back room still brings 32 career interceptions. - The Arizona preview expects the Wildcats to establish the run early and force multiple turnovers against an NAU team with a rebuilt offensive line and new coordinators. - One prediction wonders whether Seth Doege will let Fifita throw heavily or keep the offense more run-focused before Arizona plays BYU next week.

- OL/RB: Players out for Arizona vs.

- RB/LB: Arizona running back Ismail Mahdi and linebacker Max Harris, among other athletes, are filing for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the NCAA that will allow them to compete this season, according...

- DB: Arizona walk-on safety and Iowa native Quinn Olson was given a full-ride scholarship leading up to the Wildcats' season opener against NAU.

- RB/LB: Arizona running back Ismail Mahdi and linebacker Max Harris are one step closer to playing for the Wildcats this season.

- Injury: Arizona linebacker Max Harris, who isn't expected to play this week against NAU, is changing his number to 5.

- DB: Arizona puts junior safety Quinn Olson on scholarship ahead of his 1st career start

- DB: "Malcolm is just as good if not better through camp than some of those guys that got drafted." -Arizona OC Seth Doege on nickel CB Malcolm Hartzog

- Georgetown transfer Cooper Blomstrom gives Arizona a hybrid linebacker/edge piece; Danny Gonzales considers his edge technique more advanced than Riley Wilson's was at the same stage last year, though Blomstrom still needs reps as an interior blitzer. - Blomstrom's progress off the ball lets Arizona disguise pressure and coverage from its big and speed versions of a 20-personnel defensive package. Everett Roussaw and Chase Kennedy can fill similar movable roles. - The scheme intentionally gives the hybrid player freedom to defeat blockers with leverage, stack-and-shed, dip/rip or inside movement rather than a single assignment rule, placing a premium on instinct and matchup recognition. - Blomstrom says increased playbook comfort late in camp has allowed him to play faster, improving the viability of Arizona's multiple pre-snap looks.