West Virginia is jostling to get enough capable targets for quarterback Will Grier to throw to with the season opener less than two weeks away.

With the top two wide receivers gone from last year’s team and other problems cropping up, the Mountaineers are looking to Ka’Raun White to take over perhaps the same way his brother, current Chicago Bears receiver Kevin White, did in a big way in his senior season with West Virginia in 2014.

No. 22 West Virginia is lacking depth entering the Sept. 3 opener against No. 21 Virginia Tech in Landover, Maryland.

Jovon Durante, who had 17 career starts and was fourth on the team with receptions (35) and yards (331) last year, announced a week ago he is transferring to Florida Atlantic.

Marcus Simms, who played in nine games as a freshman and was projected to be a starter this season, was arrested earlier this month on charges of drunken driving and driving on a license that was revoked because of an earlier DUI arrest. Coach Dana Holgorsen suspended Simms for the opener.

That leaves White and Gary Jennings as the only returning wide receivers who had catches a year ago.

White was second on the team last season with 48 catches and five touchdowns. He missed the final two games with a broken bone in his right leg. Jennings and fellow junior David Sills have one combined start with the Mountaineers.

Holgorsen said White, Jennings and Sills “do everything right, and I’m excited about what years that they’re going to have.”

White and his younger brother, Kyzir, a safety for the Mountaineers, followed older brother Kevin from Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Junior College to Morgantown. Kevin White was a second-team all-American in 2014.

The Mountaineers got touchdowns just 58 percent of the time when advancing to the 20-yard line last season.