Bar-B-Q, pickups, and big-time outside receivers. Those are three of the birthrights most Texas Tech football fans believe they have been imbued with.
But as the 2019 season got underway, there was more uncertainty about what Matt Wells and his coaching staff had at outside receiver than there had been entering any Texas Tech football season in the past two decades. After the program lost its top two receivers from last year, Antoine Wesley and Ja’Deion High, and their combined 2,000-plus yards of productivity, there were no guarantees that the options on the roster would be able to take up the slack.