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Joey Yellen suffers early shoulder injury and still almost pulls off ASU miracle win

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Arizona State offensive coordinator Rob Likens believes in miracles and that freshman quarterback Joey Yellen almost pulled one off Saturday.

Playing in his first college game, other than one penalty-ended snap two weeks ago, Yellen nearly brought ASU back from a 28-7 deficit at Sun Devil Stadium. Even though he hurt his shoulder taking a sack on ASU's third offensive play and "couldn't hardly throw the football," Likens said. "He just toughed it out the rest of the game.

"It was an unbelievable performance. I can't say enough about it.