Props for Thorson

[NJCat83588]

One ESPN guy touts Clayton as Big 10's best freshman. The other guy goes for the obvious choice, Jabril Peppers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120652/take-two-big-tens-best-freshman

 

[pawildcat]

I'll settle for him just being our best QB and helping us improve.

 

[Deeringfish]

One ESPN guy touts Clayton as Big 10's best freshman. The other guy goes for the obvious choice, Jabril Peppers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120652/take-two-big-tens-best-freshman

Always happy to see anyone at NU get that kind of press and we all have high hopes for Thorson but do these guys have any more information on kids than we do?

 

[mybrotha]

One ESPN guy touts Clayton as Big 10's best freshman. The other guy goes for the obvious choice, Jabril Peppers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120652/take-two-big-tens-best-freshman

Peppers played last year so how is he a freshman

 

[mybrotha]

Oops I read the article and peppers got a med red shirt, but he did play.

 

[hdhntr1]

Oops I read the article and peppers got a med red shirt, but he did play.

He gets an extra year but likely will not matter as it is unlikely that he will be there for four years anyway

 

[No Chores]

He gets an extra year but likely will not matter as it is unlikely that he will be there for four years anyway

One ESPN guy touts Clayton as Big 10's best freshman. The other guy goes for the obvious choice, Jabril Peppers.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120652/take-two-big-tens-best-freshman

In my opinion,Thorson is the key to the season. If he wins the job, and performs the way I believe he will, we will be very good. He will make the o-line better, and I believe we have some very good options at WR. Our QB stats last season were pathetic-period!

 

[gocatsgo2003]

In my opinion,Thorson is the key to the season. If he wins the job, and performs the way I believe he will, we will be very good. He will make the o-line better, and I believe we have some very good options at WR. Our QB stats last season were pathetic-period!

Stats were awful, but performance really wasn't that bad. I still put much of our struggles in the passing game last year on the wideouts.

 

[hdhntr1]

Stats were awful, but performance really wasn't that bad. I still put much of our struggles in the passing game last year on the wideouts.

Plenty of blame to go around

 

[No Chores]

Stats were awful, but performance really wasn't that bad. I still put much of our struggles in the passing game last year on the wideouts.

I would agree, at least in part. 9 passing touchdowns on the season vs.lots of interceptions, though, is pretty bad. Yes, some of the interceptions were the result of passes mis-handled by receivers, but Trevor had a pretty bad interception history over-all.

 

[Cat In The Cradle]

In my opinion,Thorson is the key to the season. If he wins the job, and performs the way I believe he will, we will be very good. He will make the o-line better, and I believe we have some very good options at WR. Our QB stats last season were pathetic-period!

I'm not so sure. Although Siemien was one of the top graduating QBs last year - one of only a handful of QBs to get drafted despite a season ending injury - the offense still sputtered.

 

[gocatsgo2003]

I would agree, at least in part. 9 passing touchdowns on the season vs.lots of interceptions, though, is pretty bad. Yes, some of the interceptions were the result of passes mis-handled by receivers, but Trevor had a pretty bad interception history over-all.

There were almost a comical number of drops in 2014, especially early in the season. The ball would be put where it needed to be, only to be flat dropped (see Shuler, Miles against NIU, a drop that effectively kept us out of a bowl game).

Trevor definitely had a handful of head-scratching INTs, but he was much better last year than his stats showed.