Keith Marshall

Marshall is going to have to have a big day on Saturday if we're going to beat Auburn. Sony and Godwin in the Wildcat alone aren't going to do it. Need a bruiser with some speed.

He can apply for a extra year/medical redshirt. He should qualify with no problems.

Marshall limped off the field toward the end for the game yesterday favoring his right leg which is the same side as his previous knee injury.

I've never seen anybody throw a pass out of the Wildcat formation....ever. I'm sure it has been done, just that I've never seen it.

As for his being a baseball player.....throwing a football and throwing a baseball is totally different. I am guessing you mean that since he was a good baseball player he could be athletic enough?

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I've never seen anybody throw a pass out of the Wildcat formation....ever.

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So you didn't watch Gurley throw the longest pass of the season to Blazevich last year?

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I am guessing you mean that since he was a good baseball player he could be athletic enough?

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That he has decent arm strength and could at least make a defense not just call an all out blitz whenever we line up in that formation.

I would like to see us playing a more athletic QB but Godwin is probably a bit small for this role at 5'11" 180 lb For comparison, Nick Marshall was 6'1" 207 lb when recruited. The one play that every offense should be adding is when an athletic QB roles out and is a threat to run, pitch out or pass. This forces outside containment to come up to defend the run inevitably leaving receivers open. Even a little 5 yard pass to a reliable receiver is better than plowing into the other team's front 7 who are loading the box.

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I've never seen anybody throw a pass out of the Wildcat formation....ever.

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Guess you don't watch a lot of football because it happens pretty damn frequently. shite, the team that made the wildcat prevalent, Arkansas, had Darren McFadden throw plenty of times.

As someone said, Gurley threw our longest pass of the year from it. You have definitely seen it happen and seen it happen multiple times.

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I've never seen anybody throw a pass out of the Wildcat formation....ever.

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It's really the only way it can work great. Arkansas passed well off of it under nutt.

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Boykin at TCU was a DB or WR before they converted him to QB. If Godwin can throw the football, why not play him and lets see what happens? What's the worse that can happen. No Florida bowl, maybe Nashville?

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Boykin, Nick Marshall, DMac. At this point you are basically just running read option, not even wildcat, so why not let Godwin give it a whirl