Virginia Tech LB Jack Tyler’s recruiting conundrum, and more notes on Logan Thomas and Cody Journell

As I detailed in Friday’s paper, Saturday’s game at Duke will be a special moment for Virginia Tech linebacker Barquell Rivers. He’ll make his first start in close to two years after suffering a devastating quad injury in March 2010.

But Rivers won’t be alone in replacing middle linebacker Bruce Taylor after his season-ending foot injury. Redshirt sophomore Jack Tyler, a former walk-on who