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Minnesota Football - 2014 Players to Watch: Can Eric Murray make the leap to All-B1G?
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In anticipation of the 2014 college football season, contributor Elliot Mann takes a look at a few players who we are excited to see take the field for the Maroon and Gold this year. We start our list with Gopher cornerback Eric Murray, who could make an All-Conference leap in 2014.
Eric Murray | CB | Junior | 6'0" 195 lbs.
G TK Solo TFL INT PBU FF
13 52 44 1 0 10 0
In his second year of collegiate football and first of playing significant time, Eric Murray blossomed into one of the best cornerbacks in the Big Ten conference. That's not the hometown rube take. That praise comes from the Gopher coaching staff, Big Ten coaches and writers, as well as from the stats that Big Ten receivers didn’t amass while being shadowed by Murray during his sophomore season.
Murray will again play the boundary cornerback position for the Gopher defense this year. The Gophers’ Tracy Claeys typically splits his two cornerback positions by "field" and "boundary." The boundary corner is responsible for the short side of the field, thus playing more man-on-man coverage, allowing the safety on that side gets closer to the line of scrimmage through playing the run, blitzing, etc. The field corner has the larger amount of field to cover, but in the Gophers' scheme, the field safety helps out more in coverage.
After beating Penn State, former Gopher safety and current Chicago Bear Brock Vereen told the Post-Bulletin that Murray is one of college football's best players.
Rittenberg compiled a table that showed how well some of the Big Ten's best performed against Murray. The 6-foot, 195-pound junior stymied eventual second round NFL draft pick and Penn State receiver Allen Robinson last year, allowing only 18 yards to him. Robinson totaled 1,204 receiving yards in 2013. Likewise, Michigan's Jeremy Gallon totaled 1,062 yards receiving last year, but only 30 came against Murray.
To read the complete article click on the link below
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2014/8/15/5999775/gopher-football-2014-players-to-watch-eric-murray
In anticipation of the 2014 college football season, contributor Elliot Mann takes a look at a few players who we are excited to see take the field for the Maroon and Gold this year. We start our list with Gopher cornerback Eric Murray, who could make an All-Conference leap in 2014.
Eric Murray | CB | Junior | 6'0" 195 lbs.
G TK Solo TFL INT PBU FF
13 52 44 1 0 10 0
In his second year of collegiate football and first of playing significant time, Eric Murray blossomed into one of the best cornerbacks in the Big Ten conference. That's not the hometown rube take. That praise comes from the Gopher coaching staff, Big Ten coaches and writers, as well as from the stats that Big Ten receivers didn’t amass while being shadowed by Murray during his sophomore season.
Murray will again play the boundary cornerback position for the Gopher defense this year. The Gophers’ Tracy Claeys typically splits his two cornerback positions by "field" and "boundary." The boundary corner is responsible for the short side of the field, thus playing more man-on-man coverage, allowing the safety on that side gets closer to the line of scrimmage through playing the run, blitzing, etc. The field corner has the larger amount of field to cover, but in the Gophers' scheme, the field safety helps out more in coverage.
After beating Penn State, former Gopher safety and current Chicago Bear Brock Vereen told the Post-Bulletin that Murray is one of college football's best players.
Rittenberg compiled a table that showed how well some of the Big Ten's best performed against Murray. The 6-foot, 195-pound junior stymied eventual second round NFL draft pick and Penn State receiver Allen Robinson last year, allowing only 18 yards to him. Robinson totaled 1,204 receiving yards in 2013. Likewise, Michigan's Jeremy Gallon totaled 1,062 yards receiving last year, but only 30 came against Murray.
To read the complete article click on the link below
http://www.thedailygopher.com/2014/8/15/5999775/gopher-football-2014-players-to-watch-eric-murray