Our OL gets a ton of credit for its blocking, as it should, but our WRs did a great job yesterday too. I just watched the highlights from yesterday's games (mostly scoring plays, of course), and our WRs were outstanding with their blocks.
On the Conner 20 yard TD run that made it 42-40, Aaron Mathews took his guy down to the goal line and then had him totally locked up near the pylone, and Conner was able to run into the endzone right next to Mathews, and was untouched by the CB. He doesn't catch many passes - yet, but he is a beast as a blocker, and is the reason he gets in on as many plays as he does. BTW, he is really strong as the gunner on the punt team, so anyone who sees his limited number of catches and thinks he should've been redshirted is under appreciating his contribution to this year's team.
On the same play, even little Henderson helped with the blocking, as he came back from the edge to run a bit of interference, then raced downfield to push a guy into the endzone, who otherwise would've been able to make the tackle.
On the Orndoff shuffle pass TD in the first half, Weah ran his route straight to the goal line, then just blocked the CB completely out of the play to the back of the end zone.
Blocking is an underrated aspects of being a good WR, and Pitt's WR are doing a really good job in this respect, which is an important contributor to our offensive success this year.
On the Conner 20 yard TD run that made it 42-40, Aaron Mathews took his guy down to the goal line and then had him totally locked up near the pylone, and Conner was able to run into the endzone right next to Mathews, and was untouched by the CB. He doesn't catch many passes - yet, but he is a beast as a blocker, and is the reason he gets in on as many plays as he does. BTW, he is really strong as the gunner on the punt team, so anyone who sees his limited number of catches and thinks he should've been redshirted is under appreciating his contribution to this year's team.
On the same play, even little Henderson helped with the blocking, as he came back from the edge to run a bit of interference, then raced downfield to push a guy into the endzone, who otherwise would've been able to make the tackle.
On the Orndoff shuffle pass TD in the first half, Weah ran his route straight to the goal line, then just blocked the CB completely out of the play to the back of the end zone.
Blocking is an underrated aspects of being a good WR, and Pitt's WR are doing a really good job in this respect, which is an important contributor to our offensive success this year.
