There’s some interesting things going on at Plant City.

One of which, of course, is the Raiders going through spring football drills without their new head coach, Jason Strunk, who is still in Pennsylvania and won’t be down until the summer. But that’s not all.

Handling the team right now is assistant Wayne Ward, the lone holdover from Kevin Kelley’s staff. While Strunk hasn’t been around - though he’s in constant contact with Ward - plenty of other coaches have, Ward said. Those would be college coaches, and the two garnering the most interest right now are junior defensive lineman Denzel Drone and junior defensive back Duran Lowe.

Right now, each player holds just one scholarship offer - Lowe from USF, and Drone from Troy - but Ward said he anticipates quite a few more after the Raiders’ spring jamboree Thursday at Newsome. Oh, and Strunk is scheduled to be in town for that one - Ward said the new coach is set to arrive in town Wednesday.

In the meantime, the Raiders are working with a four-member coaching staff. But while the staff may be small, it is big on names.

There’s Ward, a former Plant City standout who went on to play at Virginia Tech. Then there’s Gerold Dickens, another former Plant City standout who played collegiately at Florida and in the NFL with the New England Patriots. Ward is working with the offense, and Dickens with the defense.

And then there’s Kenny Kelly, the former Tampa Catholic standout in the mid-90s who was one of Hillsborough County’s most prolific passers of all-time (he held county career records for passing yards and touchdown passes, but both have since been broken). Kelly, who was the starting quarterback at Miami for one season before giving up football to focus on a career in baseball, where he played 11 professional seasons and broke into the majors on a few occasions (he totaled 26 career MLB games over parts of two seasons with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals), is serving as the Raiders’ quarterbacks coach.