MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In the first half of his first college game, West Virginia’s Adam Shuler knocked loose a fumble. He finished that victory over Missouri with six tackles, including one on which he chased a receiver for a crushing hit 10 yards downfield.
A backup at defensive end, Shuler made 33 tackles as a redshirt freshman, recording his lone sack against Baylor and making his lone start at Texas in Week 9 while Noble Nwachukwu was injured.
Though West Virginia hung on to win in Austin, the Longhorns piled up 536 yards on 100 plays and forced Shuler to realize how far he had to go to earn a permanent starting job.