After Derius Davis became the first true freshman to return a punt for a touchdown in his first game since Deante Gray did so against Grambling in 2012, Gary Patterson was willing to crow. Well, kind of. “The joke on the sidelines - I was mad, because about one of every two punts he fumbles in practice - so they’re all giving me a bad time, because the first one he does, he takes back for a touchdown. I said, ‘not so fast there, woodchuck’. And the next one he fumbles on the 40 yard line.”
I think Coach Patterson was (somewhat) willing to forgive the fumble - which he recovered - in light of the day that Davis had, as the true freshman wide receiver out of St.