If you told Pat Fitzgerald three years ago that Austin Carr, his redshirt freshman walk-on wide receiver from northern California, would become one of the best pass-catchers in the Big Ten during his senior season, he would have thought you were insane. But if you did in fact made a wager on that statement, you’d be a wealthy person right now.
Carr came to Northwestern without any acclaim at all, redshirted his true freshman season and didn’t even play during his redshirt freshman campaign. Then, he caught seven passes in 2014, 16 passes in 2015 and, so far during the 2016 season, has 50 catches for 720 yards and nine touchdowns.