Bob_Loblaw
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Ryan Collado would beg to differ his first few years. Hats off to him though for putting it together and having a stellar senior season.
I'm all for letting back-ups get some minutes in blowouts. If they don't see the field even during garbage time, it's usually an indictment on where they are currently at as a player or on the coach who has failed to properly develop them. I don't believe that everyone who was a redshirt freshmen or older got in the game last year in the 2nd half against Michigan.
Are you implying that Collado would have had a better career had he not played early? Neither of us could ever know what would have been, but an equally powerful argument is that he was better in his JR and SR seasons at least partially because of his experience. Some of that experience was accumulated his FR season even though he was clearly not ready to play.
Our team last year was a bit weird because we were already playing a lot of younger players, but even last year I think proves my point.
- David Cobb had 54 of his 57 yards and 8 of his 10 carries in the second half of the Michigan game.
- DCT caught his first two passes of the season in the Michigan game.
- Devon Wright had his only carry of the season in the Michigan game.
- Drew Goodger caught 1 of his 2 passes all year in the second half of the Michigan game (his other catch came in the blowout to Nebraska)
- - I'm not sure about the OL because we were so banged up, I don't think we had a lot of depth to bring into the game.
- I could be wrong on this, but I know that is also about the time that Cedric Thompson started getting some playing time, but that might have been Purdue.
- Wells also played significant minutes
- Lamonte Edwards played a ton in the Michigan game (more due to injuries though)
- Other than that, we were already extremely young.