Gavin Wimsatt’s first Big Ten start wasn’t the smoothest of debuts as the Rutgers quarterback twice turned the ball over. The recently turned 19-year-old, however, wasn’t helped much by his wide receivers.
To that point, there were a handful of passes thrown by Wimsatt in Saturday’s game that were catchable but the wide receivers simply didn’t make the plays.
On Saturday, Wimsatt finished the game 6-of-17 for 68 yards. He had an interception and a fumble in Rutgers’ 31-0 loss at Minnesota. Rutgers is now 4-4 (1-4 Big Ten) on the season.
Following the game, head coach Greg Schiano said that he understands that a drop happens occasionally but that it repeatedly happening – “That’s not acceptable.”
“I thought that you know, some of them were a little high and some of them needed to be caught,” Schiano told reporters after the game.
“Drops, you know, they’re inexcusable at this level – do they happen once in a while? Yea, not five of them. So, that’s all that goes into my evaluation – one of the things is he throws the ball hard. You better get your hands ready to catch it. So something that we all have to get accustomed to.”
The offense struggled on Saturday, getting just seven first downs. The season-ending injury to freshman running back Samuel Brown V, announced before the game, explains just a small part of the issues on offense.
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Only three Rutgers players caught passes on Saturday, something that points to a schematic issue but also a struggle in executing.
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