With just one more week left until the Red-White game, N.C. State wrapped up its second spring scrimmage on Saturday, as Wolfpack head man Tom O’Brien tries to improve upon last year’s 5-7 campaign.

The Pack scrimmaged against itself in mostly rainy conditions in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday, but O’Brien was pleased with how his team responded in the less-than-optimal weather.

“It was another tough day out there today. They went hard at it,” O’Brien said. “We are getting to be a more physical football team which we have to be.”

So far, Russell Wilson has been by far the best statistical quarterback of those available to play in the spring. The redshirt freshman has completed 26-of-39 passes for 349 yards in two scrimmages.

The other two quarterbacks available, Harrison Beck and Justin Burke, have completed just 23-of-54 passes for 255 yards. Those numbers drop 14-of-40 for 109 yards without Beck’s performance in the first scrimmage.

Even still, O’Brien refused to say anything was certain at the position.

“There's been no decision on the quarterback situation,” O’Brien said. “We are still evaluating and we'll be doing it all the way until we are ready to play South Carolina.”

With returning starter Daniel Evans still recovering from off-season shoulder surgery and top prospect Mike Glennon yet to arrive on campus, Wilson’s performance may have put himself in position as the third man fighting for the starting job in the fall.

At running back, State has two players who played a considerable amount last year, Jamelle Eugene and Andre Brown.

Brown broke his left foot in the sixth game of the season last year, opening the door for Eugene’s emergence. Brown did not compete in the second scrimmage - he was seen at a State baseball game on Friday night wearing a protective boot on his left foot.

As far as the scrimmages have gone from the first to the second, O’Brien was particularly appreciative of how his team had improved.

“We really didn't put anything new in [for this practice]. We went back and made sure we didn't make the same mistakes that we made a week ago,” O’Brien said. “There weren't any glaring things that we didn't wrong.”

Perhaps no player improved more than true freshman Dwayne Maddox. Maddox, thrown into the fire as the team’s starting middle linebacker this spring, had gotten “his head turned around a few times” in the first scrimmage according to O’Brien.

In Saturday’s scrimmage, Maddox finished with eight tackles and a sack.

“He's been at every practice and gotten every rep and he's learned from his mistakes,” O’Brien said. “He got burned a couple of times last week and he corrected those mistakes so he was a better player today.”

The biggest surprise from the scrimmage was the play of sophomore walk-on Ulysses Tuft. Tuft, who was listed as a wide receiver last year, ran for 92 yards on 20 carries in Brown’s absence.

Saturday’s Red-White game will have a few minor changes, O’Brien said, to ensure more players don’t suffer injuries.

“We won't kickoff or kickoff return. We will punt and punt return,” O’Brien said. “We'll play a game pretty much for the half and then we'll play running time for the second half because we are running out of healthy people right now.”

OFFENSIVE LEADERS
Passing
Russell Wilson: 14-21, 172 yards
Harrison Beck: 4-15, 45 yards
Justin Burke: 4-9, 25 yards

Rushing
Jamelle Eugene: 18 carries, 42 yards
Ulysses Tuft: 20 carries, 92 yards
Russell Wilson: 3 carries, 24 yards

Receiving
Donald Bowens: 4 catches, 79 yards
George Bryan:3 catches, 22 yards
Darrell Davis: 5 catches, 39 yards
Owen Spencer: 4 catches, 34 yards

DEFENSIVE LEADERS
DeAndre Morgan: 8 tackles, 1 tackle for loss
Dwayne Maddox: 8 tackles, 1 sack
Jimmaul Simmons: 5 tackles
John Ware: 6 tackles
Jeremy Gray: 1 sack
J.R. Sweezy: 1 sack

KICKING LEADERS
Josh Czajkowski: 3-of-4; makes of 37, 26 and 39 yards. 46-yard miss.
Bradley Pierson: 34-yard FG