Texas Tech football: Handing out game balls for UT game
![LUBBOCK, TX - SEPTEMBER 29: General view of footballs before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks on September 29, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 55-19. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) LUBBOCK, TX - SEPTEMBER 29: General view of footballs before the game between the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Kansas Jayhawks on September 29, 2016 at AT&T Jones Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech won the game 55-19. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images)](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/ef04a7c49d26c9adbbd9f4993a49a6f6a4d9840f122132fb846c6efb6dc6e53e.jpg)
T.J. Vasher had his best game in quite some time
When stepping up in competition, any team needs their seniors to step up and that’s what Red Raider T.J. Vasher did this past weekend. On just four receptions, he had 74 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
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His most memorable play was a 29-yard TD catch on which he broke several tackles on his way to the endzone. That’s the type of effort that he’s been capable of throughout his Texas Tech football career but which he’s not given his team on a weekly basis.
Vasher’s average of 18.5 yards per reception was his most since early October of last year when he averaged 22.0 yards per catch on five receptions against Oklahoma State. What’s more, it was the fifth-best average of his career for a game in which he had more than two receptions.
Also, the Wichita Falls native found the endzone twice on the day. That was the first time he’d done so since the UTEP game last fall.
Vasher wasn’t Tech’s leader in yards or receptions. Erik Ezukanma had 7 catches for 91 yards to lead Tech in both categories while KeSean Carter managed to also pull in 7 balls for 77 yards and a pair of TDs.
But Vasher gets the game ball for taking his game to a higher level. While he did have eight catches for 89 yards against Houston Baptist, he didn’t find the endzone and that’s what Tech needs him to do.
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The 6-foot-6 freak of an athlete needs to be the type of red-zone threat that his head coach envisioned in fall camp when he called him the “best red-zone weapon in the Big 12”. He looked the part on Saturday and that’s the version of Vasher that we hope to see for the rest of 2020.