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Thirty minutes after UNLV football practice ended Wednesday morning, offensive coordinator Barney Cotton was the only person remaining at Rebel Park.

Tony Sanchez talks fast, walks fast and his energy is off the charts. But the UNLV football coach has got nothing on Rebels strength and conditioning coach Keith Belton and his assistant, Jeff Eaton.

As if returning to practice at 8:10 a.m. Monday morning following a week off for spring break wasn’t sobering enough for the UNLV football team, it had to contend with wind gusts of up to 60 mph at Rebel Park.

When Johnny Stanton showed up for the first day of UNLV spring football practice looking like a linebacker at 6-feet-2-inches and a solid 245 pounds, the junior college transfer appeared poised to barrel over the competition for the Rebels starting quarterback job.

Desert Pines High School running back Isaiah Morris became the school’s second player to commit to UNLV’s 2017 recruiting class, joining Jaguars quarterback Marckell Grayson.

Dalton Sneed has held his own in the UNLV quarterback competition through the first half of the spring practice schedule, but the redshirt freshman infuriated offensive coordinator Barney Cotton on Friday morning when he called an ill-advised audible during a scrimmage at Rebel Park.

Thirteen former college football players performed for only two scouts — one from the San Diego Chargers and one from the Saskatchewan Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League — to watch them work out at UNLV’s Pro Day.

Three years after running a 4.38-second 40-yard dash on UNLV’s Pro Day, former Rebels running back Bradley Randle will be back on campus Thursday trying to repeat that feat and catch the eye of an NFL scout.

Heading into spring football practice, UNLV coach Tony Sanchez said he hoped that either junior college transfer Johnny Stanton, returnee Kurt Palandech or redshirt freshman Dalton Sneed would emerge as the clear-cut winner of the quarterback competition.