Last week, I told you to keep an eye out for redshirt freshman Chase Allen. Well, Allen didn’t play a single snap until the second unit hit the field in the 4th quarter, making me look like a moron. While it surprised many people that Allen essentially never saw the field, the young tight end is far too talented to have simply not earned playing time, and I have heard nothing but glowing reviews of him as a person. Given the relatively conservative offensive playbook (as is somewhat common for the first game of the season), my guess is that the coaching stuff was saving Chase Allen’s play packages for the game against Iowa, in order to introduce new wrinkles and reads in the gameplan and force Josey Jewell to make impromptu defensive reads against a player that has literally no game film to study.
Player to Watch: Iowa
