I really feel like people underestimate Tate's injury and its effect on our offense. Not only did his accuracy on short passes degrade, but the deep ball was pretty much taken out of the gameplan after that. When he did throw it, it was terribly underthrown (compare the perfect bomb he threw to Hemingway against western and the underthrown ball to Denard later in the season). That freak injury against Indiana really screwed us for the rest of the season, allowing teams to ignore any sort of deep threat and stack the box. I expect Tate to be back, healthier than ever and with that same accuracy we saw in those first four games.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Fitzgerald Toussaint!?!? He's been impressing on the scout team, ran a sub 10.6 100m dash as a junior in hs, and is apparently up to 205 lbs now. If he can maintain those crazy cuts and insane speed at that weight, I could see him edging out shaw/smith and being the breakout back in the big ten this year.
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