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SOUTH BEND — Beaux Collins and the rest of Notre Dame football’s receiving crew have had to do far more pushups this year than they would have liked.
First-year wideouts coach Mike Brown levies a “50-pushup punishment,” Collins said Sunday, whenever someone in his position group drops a pass.
“Coach Brown gets on us,” Collins, the Clemson graduate transfer, said ahead of Friday’s first-round College Football Playoff home game against Indiana. “We just try to stay positive about it. We get on the JUGS after practice to make sure stuff like that doesn’t happen again.”
The Irish have dropped 21 passes on offense, trailing only the 29 drops by Notre Dame’s 2019 edition in the seven years Pro Football Focus has been charting such college-level data.
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Collins, who leads the team with six dropped passes, had a potential touchdown go through his hands on a crossing route in the second quarter last time out against USC.
That gave Collins 19 drops in his four-year college career. His sophomore year in 2022 was the only one where he didn’t have at least five drops.
“I’ve been around the way,” Collins said. “I’ve learned to just wipe things like that out of your memory in the game and on to the next play.”
Then again, Collins’ five contested catches rank second on this year’s Irish, trailing only tight end Mitchell Evans’ six. The leaping sideline grab Collins made for a 20-yard gain sparked the go-ahead touchdown drive in the season-opening win at Texas A&M.
That gave Collins 23 contested catches, including a career-high nine last year at Clemson.
How does the 6-foot-3 target reconcile that highlight-lowlight spectrum of outcomes?
“Shoot, it’s football,” he said. “Things like that happen. You try…
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Author : South Bend Tribune
Publish date : 2024-12-15 22:41:00
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