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QB Chris Chugunov (Official Thread)

Amusing... Chug had lightning WRs in HS... in fact, one was the top track star in NJ... so I contacted Pantoni that he might want to take a look..
been wondering if looking at film of that WR caught his eye to Chug... Olave in reverse...
or at least I'd like to think so
 
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FOOTBALL: CHUGUNOV GETS CHANCE TO SHINE IN FRONT OF FRIENDS, FAMILY AT RUTGERS

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Chris Chugunov is a simple guy; he just loves throwing the football.

That’s what got him off the beach he was lying on for months in summer 2018 after graduating from West Virginia and back in pads in the Buckeye locker room with two more years of college football eligibility.

Still, there was no guarantee that the career backup entering Columbus, Ohio, as the fourth-string quarterback would get the chance to do what he loves on the big stage.

“I mean, this time of year, my biggest challenge is staying warm on the sidelines, so you’d usually see me bundled up and whatnot,” Chugunov said.

Instead, the No. 2 quarterback — referred to as “Chugs” — on the No. 2 team in the country finds himself preparing for significant minutes in a mid-November Big Ten game that he’ll play in front of 60-70 friends and family members in his home state.

Ohio State travels to Rutgers as a 51.5-point favorite, nine points more than it was favored against Maryland, which it beat 73-14 this past weekend. Chugunov played nearly the entire second half against the Terrapins and could see even more time against the Scarlet Knights.

The Buckeyes are on the road, but it’s a home game of sorts for Chugunov, who grew up in Skillman, New Jersey, just a half-hour from Rutgers’ campus in Piscataway.

Besides readying himself for a game in which he may see his most action all season, Chugunov said it’s been a tall order just trying to get tickets for the sizable New Jersey contingent coming to see him play.

“I’m looking forward to it. I think the thing I’m most excited about is I have a large group of family and friends who can’t always make it out here to Ohio for games, so I’m excited to have them there to see me play,” Chugunov said.

Head coach Ryan Day said former Ohio State and Rutgers assistant coach Bob Fraser was familiar with Chugunov from his New Jersey ties and helped move the needle on the decision to take him into the program ahead of the 2018 season.

“He gave a little bit of a character reference there, gave us some information, which kind of allowed us to say, ‘Let’s take this guy in,’” Day said.

Chugunov said that when he arrived in Columbus, he had taken seven or eight months off from football, coming off a season in which he earned his first two starts at West Virginia following an injury to Will Grier.

The spotlight may have been too bright for Chugunov against blue blood Texas and Oklahoma programs; he completed a little more than 52 percent of his passes for West Virginia in the two losses before transferring out of the program in February 2018.

By the time he entered Buckeye facilities in August of that year, both Chugunov and Day said the graduate transfer wasn’t in great shape.

“When you walk in here, and you walk in the locker room here, everyone’s built like a brick house,” Chugunov said. “So coach Mick [Marotti] and I worked through that in season last year, and throughout this offseason, it’s been a focus of mine to try to be somewhere on the same level as everyone else here.”

A year later, Day said in fall camp that Chugunov had transformed his body, which the 6-foot-1 passer attributed to 30 pounds of added muscle.

The weight wasn’t the only change in Chugunov’s second fall camp at Ohio State; the entire quarterback room had changed –– save him –– after Tate Martell and Matthew Baldwin transferred out of the program and Dwayne Haskins was drafted to the NFL.

Suddenly, Chugunov was the most experienced Buckeye quarterback on the roster, and he’d have to beat out only fellow graduate transfer Gunnar Hoak for a second-string spot behind sophomore Justin Fields.

“I think he was trying to figure out how serious to approach: Was he really in the mix? I remember telling him in the summer, ‘I think you give us the best chance to win, outside of possibly Justin here, so if I was you now, you need to be ready. We’re gonna need you.’ And so I think he’s embraced that,” offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson said.

Despite a lack of practice reps, Chugunov said his “hundred years of college football” have taught him to stay mentally prepared to enter a game at any time, and with Ohio State beating teams by an average of 42 points per game this season, he’s had quite a few opportunities.

Chugunov has thrown four touchdowns on 74 percent passing this season in a career-high seven appearances — none bigger than this past Saturday.

Having already thrown a touchdown to freshman wide receiver Garrett Wilson in the third quarter, Chugunov wanted another and launched a deep ball to the end zone from midfield with the Terrapin pass rush bearing down.

“I think the pros outweigh the cons there. I knew I was gonna get smacked, and I had the option to get the ball out of my hands quick and get, like, three or four yards or hang onto it a split second longer, get smacked and potentially get whatever it was, like 50 yards and a touchdown,” Chugunov said.

Entire article: https://www.thelantern.com/2019/11/...-shine-in-front-of-friends-family-at-rutgers/
 
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Lives a mile down the road... told numerous friends with Rutgers seasons tickets to grab all they could and call the Chugunovs.. altho I'm sure if they called the Rutgers ticket office they'd get a killer deal for 50 tickets
 
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dude needs to pull the ball on a zone read and take off this weekend. It's been there all year. I've seen Day yelling at him on the sideline after stalled drives in numerous games this season.

He's going to have plenty of opportunities in the 2nd half Saturday to put on a show in front of a pro hometown crowd. Buckeyes might (should) run for over 400 if they get a few unexpected, chunk running plays from their backup QB.
 
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dude needs to pull the ball on a zone read and take off this weekend. It's been there all year. I've seen Day yelling at him on the sideline after stalled drives in numerous games this season.
At least twice last week he fucking slid at the first hint of being hit when he started to run. I'm glad I didn't have the remote in my hand at the time...
 
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Chris Chugunov Ready To Shine On Homecoming Weekend

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Ohio State celebrated its 2019 Homecoming with a 34-10 win over Michigan State in early October.

But for grad transfer QB Chris Chugunov, homecoming is this weekend.

Chugunov is a native of Skillman, N.J. and played his high school ball for Montgomery High, about 30 minutes away from the Rutgers campus. He said “probably upwards of 60 or 70” people had asked him to get them tickets to see the game.

“I think thing I’m most excited about is I have a large group of family and friends who can’t always make it out here to Ohio for games, so I’m excited to have them there to see me play,” Chugunov said this week.

Chugunov spent his first three seasons as a college quarterback at West Virginia before coming to OSU as a grad transfer in the summer of 2018.

This weekend marks the first time he has played a game back in the Garden State since graduating high school.

Chugunov came to OSU as something of a “break glass in case of emergency” option after Joe Burrow transferred to LSU in the spring of 2018.

At the time, the Buckeyes had only two healthy scholarship quarterbacks, Dwayne Haskins and Tate Martell, and they desperately needed a third.

He played in only one game in 2018, in the waning minutes of a blowout win over Rutgers.

But after Martell and Matthew Baldwin transferred following that year and Haskins opted to turn pro, Chugunov was suddenly the senior man in the quarterback room.

This year, the guy known around the team as “Chugs” has gone from an emergency option to a legitimate backup.

“He’s a guy that’s been around a lot of football, smart. He’s a guy you can count on,” said OSU head coach Ryan Day. “Understand what’s going on. He throws a good ball. He’s got good touch. He’s very intelligent. He can handle a lot without getting a ton of reps. That’s hard to do.”

Chugunov is currently working on his master’s degree in sport management and said earlier this year that he may try to become a sports agent when he hangs up his cleats for good.

Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/11/chris-chugunov-ready-to-shine-on-homecoming-weekend/

Five Predictions: Ohio State at Rutgers

Bonus: Chris Chugunov throws more touchdowns than Justin Fields.
Can anybody even dispute this? Chugs will be in by the end of the first half and throwing it around, then he’ll get to do it for much of the third quarter as well. Poor Justin Fields might only throw three touchdowns this week.
Entire article: https://theozone.net/2019/11/five-predictions-ohio-state-rutgers/
 
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Yeap. Freshmen dropping passes that hit them in the hands.

not on his first drive they didn't. He threw 2-3 horrible passes on some simple check down stuff that had everyone around me cringing.

He's dicey at best and we are past the teams on the schedule that OSU could possibly beat without Fields.
 
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not on his first drive they didn't. He threw 2-3 horrible passes on some simple check down stuff that had everyone around me cringing.

He's dicey at best and we are past the teams on the schedule that OSU could possibly beat without Fields.
Agree as to Chug’s first possession. Disagree that we have to have Fields to beat State Penn and SCum.
 
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