Out with Player Grades and in with Three up, Three down, Inside NU's newest postgame evaluation. Rather than handing out grades to the different contributors, we'll give you three players (or position groups) whose stock went up and three players whose performances were disappointing. It wasn’t a perfect performance, but Northwestern did plenty to beat Purdue (and didn’t even need overtime!) Here’s the report.
It’s been an up-and-down season for Skowronek, at least from a statistical standpoint. He looked like a breakout star with 8-123 and 3-86-2 lines in Northwestern’s two non-conference wins, but was held under 50 yards in each of the first six games of Big Ten play and caught 5 passes in a game just once in that span.