Clayton Thorson

Um, but then there's been a number of close calls.

So we got the losses, the, you know, the Western Michigan game we were all at, the, the, the Thorson fumble, um, that was brutal.

You've got the, uh, the [laughs] 2022 year that was just a catastrophe when we played that really good Miami team and lost 17-14.

We have, uh, the, um, the loss against Army that I mentioned, then a loss to NIU in 2014, which, uh, that's [laughs] the same year we won at Notre Dame.

Do you g- you guys remember that Akron game, 39-34? They were driving.

I forget, I forget what...

I t- I think that was the game where, um, Thorson got sacked and fumbled, and they returned it for a touchdown, and all of a sudden it was a five-point game.

Um-

I am a little worried about injuries stacking up on the offense, notably the offensive line, Northwestern's left guard, Ezemo Eradikai.

went down for the year he's done Jackson Carsello the center was I believe carted off and transported to the hospital in Colorado somehow ended up playing the very next game against Indiana but you know we'll see I think he I think he might have left or something like that so a lot of shuffling around the offensive line there and a lot of injuries on defense as well but I think Regardless of whether or not it's successful, I think Aiden Giles and Chip Kelly have led this Northwestern offense to be watchable and exciting, which is not something that we can say we've seen out of a Northwestern offense probably since the Clayton Thorson days.

Yeah, and Charles is a big guy to bring down the backfield to 6 foot 4, 225 plus pounds.

Danik is someone that really I think caught a lot of people's attention Friday night and one of those plays was the play.

plays.

Yeah, but I don't look for him to be, you know, if it happens, it's in the vein of, holy hell, you just let Clayton Thorson run down the sideline on you.

Which can happen.

Pat Fitzgerald.

Maybe there's a sneaky athletic wide receiver that goes off, like a Flynn Nagel or whatever.

Maybe a quarterback has the day of his life running the ball or throwing the ball, Clayton Thorson style.

maybe in, in talent.

They're fine.

He leads them to the championship, he wins the Heisman Trophy, comes out of nowhere, and he winds up being the first pick in the draft for the Raiders.

At number five, a 2018 mock draft had Nick Bosa going number one and the likes of Justin Herbert, Drew Locke, and Northwestern's Clayton Thorson going ahead of a guy named Kyler Murray, who shot up the boards at the end.

He was the first-round pick of the A's, but also the first pick in the draft by the Arizona Cardinals.

Again, Kyler Murray coming out of nowhere to be the number one pick in the draft.