A weird thing happened three-quarters of the way through the 2019 Pitt football season.  A true-freshman Wide Receiver started catching passes.  It was weird at first because nobody had ever heard of him.  “Who’s number 82?” I remember asking myself at the Duke game when he made his first grab, “dude looks pretty big”.  I got even weirder as the season went on because Wayne was actually good at it.  Wayne caught 13 balls for 214 yards and a touchdown over the final three games of the season (Virginia Tech, Boston College and Eastern Michigan).  Extrapolated over a 13 game season (12 + a bowl) that’s 56 for 927 and 4 TD’s.  Them’s 3rd team (maybe even second team if he played for the Tarheels) all-ACC numbers people.)

Of course if you extrapolated every true-freshman contributors top four games over an entire season then Pitt would have won ten games four years ago.  Or something like that.  Continue reading “Why Jared Wayne (and Where the H*** are All the Other Receivers)?” →