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per Greder:
A front-runner has emerged in the Gophers’ dire need to produce reliable receiving options alongside junior leader Tyler Johnson.
“Again, I will keep saying his name,” Fleck said Saturday after the Gophers’ fifth spring practice. “He’s going to have a lot of pressure on him because I keep saying his name, but Chris Bell, Chris Autman-Bell, just continues to make plays.
“ ‘Bet you can’t make another one,’ ” Fleck continued. “And then he’ll make the next one.”
Behind Johnson’s team highs of 35 receptions, 677 yards and seven touchdowns last season, the Gophers didn’t have a receiver with more than 11 grabs, and none scored a TD. When Johnson was lost to a broken hand for the final two games, the lack of options was stark.
As a true freshman from Kankakee, Ill., Autman-Bell received praise last fall but injured his foot in training camp and was redshirted. “I think (he) was having maybe the best training camp of any of the wideouts, and then he hurt his foot,” Fleck said on March 6.
https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/...sure-on-promising-receiver-chris-autman-bell/
Go Gophers!!
A front-runner has emerged in the Gophers’ dire need to produce reliable receiving options alongside junior leader Tyler Johnson.
“Again, I will keep saying his name,” Fleck said Saturday after the Gophers’ fifth spring practice. “He’s going to have a lot of pressure on him because I keep saying his name, but Chris Bell, Chris Autman-Bell, just continues to make plays.
“ ‘Bet you can’t make another one,’ ” Fleck continued. “And then he’ll make the next one.”
Behind Johnson’s team highs of 35 receptions, 677 yards and seven touchdowns last season, the Gophers didn’t have a receiver with more than 11 grabs, and none scored a TD. When Johnson was lost to a broken hand for the final two games, the lack of options was stark.
As a true freshman from Kankakee, Ill., Autman-Bell received praise last fall but injured his foot in training camp and was redshirted. “I think (he) was having maybe the best training camp of any of the wideouts, and then he hurt his foot,” Fleck said on March 6.
https://www.twincities.com/2018/03/...sure-on-promising-receiver-chris-autman-bell/
Go Gophers!!