Texas Tech football: 3 Kansas State offensive weapons to know
Texas Tech football fans should know about these three Kansas State offensive weapons because they will loom large in Saturday’s contest.
What a difference a week makes when it comes to our perception of the Kansas State Wildcats. After all, they are coming off of stunning road upset of then-No. 3 Oklahoma on Saturday.
No longer are we thinking of the Cats as the team that opened the season with a loss to Arkansas State. Rather, we have a healthy fear of them after they toppled the Sooners for the second-straight year.
In the 38-35 victory, the Wildcats overcame a 21-point second-half deficit. In fact, after OU scored to make it a 35-14 game in the third quarter, KSU would score the final 24 points of the game.
The star of the show was KSU QB Skylar Thompson, who once again proved his detractors wrong. Passing for 334 yards and a TD, he was remarkably efficient as he attempted only 25 passes (completing 18). Meanwhile, on the ground, he accounted for three more TDs in what was arguably his best performance as a collegiate.
For his career, Thompson is 3-0 against Tech. But he’s never really had the type of day against the Red Raiders that he had against the Sooners this past weekend.
So far, his best performance against Tech came in last year’s win in Lubbock when he threw for 246 yards and two TDs while also being picked off once. But he’s also never been a liability when facing the Red Raider defense.
Thus, it would seem unlikely for Tech to be able to count on Thompson simply handing the game over. He’s a steady senior who doesn’t take many chances and who keeps his mistakes to a minimum. In other words, he makes certain that opposing teams have to beat him because he isn’t likely to beat himself.
But by now, Red Raider fans are likely rather familiar with Thompson. It feels like he’s been playing for KSU since the first Bush administration and nothing that he does on Saturday will be a surprise as we’ve seen his entire bag of tricks over the last three years.
However, there are other Kansas State weapons that we should become familiar with as we prepare for Saturday. And we will begin by looking at a player who is being compared to one of the greatest KSU Wildcats of all time.