When you look at Brandon Dawkins’ numbers against the UCLA Bruins in his first true road start as the Arizona Wildcats quarterback, they’re not very impressive.
He was 8-of-17 for 73 yards, and was missing a lot of short, easy passes.
But after his touchdown pass to Samajie Grant to give Arizona an early 7-0 lead, quarterbacks coach Rod Smith noticed something wasn’t right with Dawkins right away.
“I could tell when he missed the quick hitch to Trey (Griffey),” said Smith. “(Dawkins) threw it outside to Trey, and he was a little short on his route, but I could tell that wasn’t (Brandon)’s natural motion, and I asked him ‘Are you hurting, can you complete a ball?