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per ESPN:
Mitch Sherman: Minnesota CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun
Suppressing the urge to simply go with the next guy up at Michigan State's DB factory, I settled on the Golden Gophers' senior co-captain for his knack to make the right play at the right time.
After all, is there anything more vital to the success of a defensive back?
A junior-college transfer originally from Delaware, Boddy-Calhoun missed most of the 2013 season with injury but made a name for himself in the Big Ten last fall. And if you don't know the name, it's pronounced BREE-in. Learn it, because he figures to factor prominently again in 2015 as the vocal leader of a secondary that rivals Ohio State and Wisconsin as the league's best.
Boddy-Calhoun, at 5-foot-11, is a smaller version of Seahawks' All-Pro corner Richard Sherman, according to Minnesota secondary coach Jay Sawvel. That comparison ought to grab your attention. If you watched the Gophers in 2014, you understand. Boddy-Calhoun always appears around the football -- like at Nebraska, when he jarred the ball loose from De'Mornay Pierson-El for an interception with 79 seconds to play at the 2-yard line as the Gophers led by four points.
He led Minnesota with five interceptions last season, not including his pick of a two-point conversion against Missouri in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, and earned All-Big Ten recognition from the media -- among two returning first-team defensive backs.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120452/take-two-big-tens-best-defensive-back
Go Gophers!!
Mitch Sherman: Minnesota CB Briean Boddy-Calhoun
Suppressing the urge to simply go with the next guy up at Michigan State's DB factory, I settled on the Golden Gophers' senior co-captain for his knack to make the right play at the right time.
After all, is there anything more vital to the success of a defensive back?
A junior-college transfer originally from Delaware, Boddy-Calhoun missed most of the 2013 season with injury but made a name for himself in the Big Ten last fall. And if you don't know the name, it's pronounced BREE-in. Learn it, because he figures to factor prominently again in 2015 as the vocal leader of a secondary that rivals Ohio State and Wisconsin as the league's best.
Boddy-Calhoun, at 5-foot-11, is a smaller version of Seahawks' All-Pro corner Richard Sherman, according to Minnesota secondary coach Jay Sawvel. That comparison ought to grab your attention. If you watched the Gophers in 2014, you understand. Boddy-Calhoun always appears around the football -- like at Nebraska, when he jarred the ball loose from De'Mornay Pierson-El for an interception with 79 seconds to play at the 2-yard line as the Gophers led by four points.
He led Minnesota with five interceptions last season, not including his pick of a two-point conversion against Missouri in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl, and earned All-Big Ten recognition from the media -- among two returning first-team defensive backs.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/120452/take-two-big-tens-best-defensive-back
Go Gophers!!