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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5052446, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1818411006483144977[/MEDIA] [URL='https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/6f4Jut'][B]Assisted access <<[/B][/URL] -> “He’s extremely athletic,” Mora said. “He’s a 6-foot-3, 205-pound kid with a rocket arm, he can also throw with touch and he can run. What you see in the college game now are quarterbacks who are dual-threat guys, who when a play breaks down they can get a first down, threaten the defense down the field with their legs, where you can get into a triple-option game, an RPO (run-pass option) game, zone-read game. Those are the offenses that seem to be having success, and he has all of those traits.” <- ->“Watching Nick work in the limited time I’ve been watching him, you see real athleticism out of him,” Mora said. “You see a real resolve. This is a guy who came into his college career with high hopes and it hasn’t quite worked out the way he wanted … yet.” Joe Fagnano, transfer from Maine, initially won the starting job last season, but went down for the season with a shoulder injury in the second game. He’s back, as is sophomore Tucker McDonald. True freshman Cole Welliver, also from Texas, is getting started. “Four guys all at different stages of their careers that I think can be good players at Connecticut,” Mora said. Evers is the one in the now-or-never stage. This is me talking, not Mora. If Evers is not under center or in the shotgun when the Huskies begin the season at Maryland Aug. 31, something will have gone awry. Back to Mora: “There is so much turnover at the quarterback position,” he said. “Nick was one of the top high school quarterbacks in the country coming out. Then he commits to Florida, the coach is let go, so he goes to Oklahoma, didn’t have an opportunity to establish a relationship with that staff in recruiting, they make some changes, it doesn’t work out there. “He ends up at Wisconsin, again some changes. Now coming to us, I feel like he has a lot to prove. I’ve watched a ton of his practice tape, I’ve watched him work with our guys a little bit, he’s a really talented guy. He just needs somebody to buy into him and say, ‘You’re our guy. Yeah, you’re going to make some mistakes, we’ll ride through it with you.’ Everything I’ve seen in Nick, I like.” <- [/QUOTE]

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