Shamar Porter

UConn's special team delivered the knockout blow in the third quarter.

Shamar Porter blocked a UMass punt, recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown, making it 28-3.

UMass scored twice in garbage time, touchdown pass, a rushing score to make that final score look more respectable at 35-16, but it was well out of reach by then.

UConn's defense recorded eight three and outs and two fourth down stops as they pretty much handled every aspect of this game.

Yeah, getting pretty tough.

Shout out to Shamar Porter of UConn, who had both a receiving touchdown and one on his own blocked punt recovery.

Very cool.

This game had 200 combined penalty yards.

But he's kind of in the Willoughby camp where it's like – He doesn't have a single game in double-digit DraftKings points.

You've also got Shamar Porter, who is actually tied with Willoughby for 19 targets on the season, but only two games of double-digit DraftKings points.

Those are the only two games he scored a touchdown, and he's $4,900.

So what you're looking at with this UConn team is you're looking at a lot of guys who are around a 10% to 12% target share, and they just don't really have a lot of upside because they spread the ball around so much.

Caleb Osborne has done a lot of really, really good things.

I mean, Shamar Porter, a guy that we've been talking about for a couple years now, really starting to rise up.

I know we're really happy about that.

Our running back play, we've got... multiple guys we feel confident in.

You know, every game you have to find ways to win games, you know, playing with this uniform on and, and, literally go that little extra inch to make those plays which we didn't end up doing this past week

and i think before we get into talking about our upcoming opponent in syracuse i think let's let's shout out a couple guys like i know we've both have been uh excited to see shamar porter and the things that he's done and we've talked about him a lot over the past year plus about how much potential we think he has, and he's really performing at a good level right now.

Obviously, our linebacking corps has played very well.

We have numerous guys that we could name there that have just done good things.

And I like to see him get more help because when you're fatigued, I don't care how good an athlete you are, you have a greater chance of making mistakes, which is what happened to him when throwing that late game interception.

But that's probably the only mistake he made.

And I think it's due to the fact that have become more reliant on his talent and making plays and create key situations as opposed to having you know a balanced approach like we had in past wins so he needs more help like you said Shamar Porter's becoming a more complete receiver it's great to see him continue to make plays seemingly every week.

Another guy that's coming to play consistently every week.