Jakobi Meyers dropped a pass against Pittsburgh. Then N.C. State receivers Kelvin Harmon and Stephen Louis did the same.
Given the problems over the past decade by Wolfpack receivers with dropped passes, there was a sense of “Same old, N.C. State,” as the first half of the Pitt game unfolded.
But there was one person who wasn’t worried.
“It happens,” Wolfpack quarterback Ryan Finley said. “It was a couple of drops.”
Finley didn’t lose faith in his receivers. Meyers responded with the go-ahead touchdown in the third quarter. Harmon had two longs plays to set up a pair of touchdowns as N.