Lessons in Vanderbilt Football: NIU

The biggest beneficiary of the QB swap is probably Will Sheppard, who showed out against NIU.I guess I need to throw out everything I have written about Mike Wright. Well, maybe I do not need to throw it away. It is all still true or potentially true. We will likely not get a chance to confirm any of it though since Mike Wright was replaced at QB by true freshman AJ Swann. I knew about the swap before most thanks to super-duper secret sources met while tailgating.

The QB change might have seemed like a mistake if you checked the score at halftime. The Commodores were down 21-14. Swann was 10/14 for 101 yards and a TD. He also had a single carry for 7 yards. The offense was being more…