Colorado Spring Game Recap: Five Biggest Takeaways

Colorado’s spring practice period has come and gone, with 20,000+ fans piling into Folsom Field to witness CU’s Black and Gold Spring Game to get a sneak peek at the 2025 iteration of the Buffaloes. With the spring game now over, the question now begs: What did we learn from Saturday’s scrimmage?

We’ll break down our five biggest takeaways from CU’s spring game in one easy place, so you can get caught up to speed if you missed out.

1: Kaidon Salter is a legit passer.

In our roundtable preview of the spring game, the main thing that the Ralphie Report staff wanted to see was how Kaidon Salter looked throwing the football. The senior transfer from Liberty excelled with the Flames as a run-first quarterback, but questions remained about his ability as a passer.

Safe to say, Salter quieted those concerns quickly. He looked great when airing out the football. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to tell that he was even a run-first quarterback in the first place. Salter finished the day going nine of 11 on pass attempts, racking up 67 yards in our (unofficial) stat sheet.

When Salter dropped back, he looked comfortable. He displayed great accuracy and put good airtime on deep balls, along with showing urgency and putting plenty of zip on his check-downs. Most importantly, he was on the same page with his receivers and throwing very catchable balls. After Saturday, it’s probably safe to say that Salter is the frontrunner to start when that Georgia Tech game rolls around.

2: Juju Lewis still needs time.

Lewis is in a unique position as a 17-year-old true five-star freshman who could potentially start at a Power Four program. Unfortunately for CU’s quarterback of the future, it looks like he has some growing to do within the college game.

In Juju’s first outing in front of fans, he looked like a…

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Publish date : 2025-04-20 02:53:00

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