Conference Review: BIG 12
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With college football in full swing, we’ll be bringing you a review of the “Big Five” conferences each and every week. These recaps will feature sections for “Premier Conference Performer,” “Rising Players,” “Falling Players,” and a special Freshman spotlight. These weekly reviews will keep you up-to-date on all the happenings in devy leagues and allow you to keep tabs on future dynasty league assets. By the time the NFL Draft rolls around, you won’t see too many strangers.
With only three games this past week in the Big 12, it will be a smaller edition than normal.
Premier Conference Performer:
Trevone Boykin, QB TCU
22/39 for 433 yards, seven touchdowns, seven carries for 28 yards
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This is two weeks in a row for Boykin to be the premier conference performer, but he’s earned it. Boykin reminds me of Cam Newton, but a more mature version. He is very athletic, which he can use to buy time or take off and run. On Saturday, he was able to avoid the rush and launch an accurate deep pass to Josh Doctson for a touchdown. This happened throughout the game and you almost felt bad for Texas Tech on his career day of seven touchdown passes. Boykin is making a case for the Heisman and the NFL with his performance this year. He’s passed for 21 touchdowns with only three interceptions and averaging over eight yards per pass attempt. Add in another 374 yards with three rushing touchdowns and you’re starting to see what I’m saying. Boykin is only a junior, but the NFL may be right around the corner.
Rising
Tyreek Hill, Athlete Oklahoma State
14 carries for 78 yards, three receptions 26 yards, one kickoff return for 14 yards and three punt returns for five yards
Hill had about the same amount of overall touches, but his carries increased and he produced by averaging 5.6 yards per rush. He’s the Swiss army knife of the Cowboy offense and has been extremely impressive his only year in Stillwater. He possesses video game like speed and it shows up on the field. He took a handoff this past week and bounced outside for a nice gain. Defenders literally looked like they were standing still as he went by them, it’s truly remarkable. However, he was disappointing in the return game this week with very little production.
Kevin White, WR West Virginia
Three receptions for 27 yards and one touchdown
This was a down game for White and he scored a touchdown. That gives you an indication of the dominating season he’s had thus far and his rising NFL Draft status. He has went over 100 yards in every other game this season and his value is still sky-high. White is a big bodied wide receiver that has great body control and is a hands catcher. He has glowing reports about his work ethic and character. He reminds me very much of Larry Fitzgerald.
Aaron Green, RB TCU
Six carries for 102 yards, one touchdown, two receptions for 13 yards
I’m going to puff my chest out a little on this one. For a while, I was the only person aboard the Aaron Green bandwagon. On Saturday, I’m watching the game with my wife’s cousin’s husband (like you needed to know) and the first play for TCU is a handoff to Green. He zooms past the entire defense for a 62 yard score and I felt justified in that I might not be crazy as to what I’ve seen in his previous play. He had several other plays where he flashed his great athleticism as well. He isn’t a big running back at 5’11” and 202 pounds and plays like a smaller back, but he has good potential.
Josh Doctson, WR TCU
Four receptions for 76 yards and two touchdowns
If I had a lukewarm category, that’s where Doctson would go this week. Sure he finished the game with two touchdowns and 76 yards. On one of the touchdowns he broke a tackle and then showed off his burst and speed to out run a defender the rest of the way. Why would I be critical of Doctson then? He had many more targets that he didn’t win against contested coverage, including several in the endzone. I thought it was going to be his bread in butter with his leaping ability, but I think he still has a ways to go in his development as a wide receiver. Two touchdowns look great, but not as good when you have a handful of endzone targets.
Falling
Jonathan Gray and Malcolm Brown, RBs Texas
Gray: 10 carries for 24 yards, one reception for -1 yard
Brown: Six carries for 21 yards
At this point, Gray and Brown have been such focal points in the falling part of my list that one might think they deserve a break. Well when they combined to average 2.5 yards per touch against Kansas State and were both five star recruits; I believe they both have everything coming to them from the disappointment realm. I don’t think there is much else to say but to move on from these two.
Desmond Roland, RB Oklahoma State
12 carries for 37 yards
Roland is the thunder to Tyreek Hill’s lightening in the Oklahoma State backfield. However, he’s been a disappointment for much of the year with below average showings against less than stellar defenses. He dropped from a potential committee guy at the next level to probably a training camp body value for me.
Marcell Ateman, WR Oklahoma State
None
Ateman was benched due to poor practice habits. He’s only a freshman, so he has time to turn it around. But getting benched is a big decline in value. Ateman is an athletic and tall wide receiver, but we’ve seen these head cases spiral out of control before. Proceed with caution.
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