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QB/WR Terrelle Pryor ('10 Rose, '11 Sugar MVP)

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1926Buckeyes;1279748; said:
Thanks for posting that play, I've been looking for it.

Pretty cool. Spin, pump fake, throws ball over a player right to Robo in a hurry. Excellent play. Reminds me of plays that Troy made as a late junior and senior.
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Just a hint that everyone else knew but us...if you search Terrelle Pryor on Youtube, and sort by "most recent", or by "newest", or whatever...it really helps finding the newer Pryor clips. Otherwise, everytime I search, it brings up HS highlights.
 
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Ohio State Insider: QB Pryor impressing coaches and teammates

by Doug Lesmerises Thursday October 02, 2008, 10:44 PM


Marvin Fong/The Plain DealerTerrelle Pryor's success at making big plays in his first two starts as OSU's quarterback has encouraged his coaches and teammates.
COLUMBUS -- Terrelle Pryor's personality has been as much of a topic heading into his first road game as a starter on Saturday as his passing skills. Is he tough enough? Is he calm enough? Can he handle Wisconsin's Camp Randall Stadium? He expressed no doubt after Saturday's win over Minnesota about playing in Madison, and teammates say they have no questions after watching the way the freshman quarterback handles his business.
"Everybody has seen Terrelle play and he has never played like a freshman at all," running back Beanie Wells said. "To me, him being a freshman is irrelevant because he's the type of guy who's going to go out and play hard no matter who we're playing.
"He's a competitor and you really don't find that too much in quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are usually laid-back guys, but Terrelle is a guy who's going to get in your face and I love that about him."

In that way, Wells sees a piece of OSU Heisman winner Troy Smith.
"When I look at Terrelle, who I think of is Troy," Wells said. "It's incredible the similarities those two guys have."

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Wells trumpets Pryor?s talents
RB assumes brotherly role
By MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER
COLUMBUS ? Ohio State has a multidimensional individual lining up at tailback. There is Chris ?Beanie? Wells the draft horse who can erode the starch right out of a defense by relentlessly pounding at them while carrying his team on his back.

Then there?s Beanie the cheerleader, who can rah rah and root with the best of them when injury keeps him off the field. And Beanie the philosopher, who sees the game through his own customized prism.

Now there?s Beanie the big brother, who has orchestrated a pseudo adoption of freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor. After Pryor spent a few hours over at Beanie?s house the other night, Wells came away from that visit talking like a proud surrogate something or other.

?This kid, he just does it all right,? Wells said. ?It?s incredible to see the desire this young quarterback has. Being a young guy, you?re not expected to come in and know everything, but he?s in the film room, always looking for ways to get better.?

Pryor came to Ohio State as the top prize in the 2008 recruiting class, but he was expected to spend his first season here learning under senior starter Todd Boeckman before taking the reins and running the Buckeyes. When Boeckman floundered against Southern California, Pryor sliced through that opening and now commands an offensive huddle filled with seniors and veterans like Wells.

?That guy, the passion he has for football is incredible, he?s just so excited to be in the backfield,? Wells said. ?He definitely has a competitive attitude.?

Wells said Pryor has a fire and bravado like Wells saw in the resident quarterback when he arrived at Ohio State ? Troy Smith. Smith went on to lead the Buckeyes to a pair of wins over Michigan and a couple of Big Ten championships and won the Heisman Trophy in 2006 as a senior.
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OSU confident Pryor can handle pressure
Freshman quarterback undaunted as first Big Ten road start approaches
Friday, October 3, 2008 3:09 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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DORAL CHENOWETH III | Dispatch
Terrelle Pryor has thrown for five touchdowns and one interception in two games as a starter.




Ohio State will head into a hostile environment Saturday night in need of a victory over Wisconsin that could resurrect its big dreams for the season. At the helm will be a freshman quarterback, Terrelle Pryor, and no one connected with the Buckeyes seems to have a concern with that. There's a good reason, junior running back Chris "Beanie" Wells said.
"Everybody in this room has seen Terrelle play, and he doesn't play like a freshman at all," Wells said. "Him being a freshman, to me, is irrelevant, because he's the type of guy that's going to go out there and perform, and play hard."
Receiver Brian Robiskie seconded that notion.
"This game will be no different, just because Terrelle is a guy who definitely prepares every day, and definitely wants to get better every day," Robiskie said. "I don't see him having those freshman jitters or anything like that."
Neither does OSU coach Jim Tressel. The past three games have shown progressively why Tressel opted to promote the running/throwing Pryor over senior Todd Boeckman.
Pryor showed poise while sharing time with Boeckman in a 35-3 loss at Southern California. He threw an OSU freshman-record four touchdown passes in his first start the next week in a win over Troy. He ran for two TDs and passed for another in a Big Ten-opening win over Minnesota last week as he and Wells -- making his first start since the season opener -- showed the promise of becoming a high-powered dual threat.
While producing points and adding more plays to his repertoire, Pryor is proving more and more to be a threat to make something happen on any play with his arm or his feet. Plus, Pryor personally has turned the ball over just once, and that was an interception of a Hail Mary pass at the end of a half. The three turnovers Boeckman gave up at USC had as much to do with his demotion the next week as the play of Pryor that night.
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Electron Boy;1279043; said:
i love the kid, but i think the sample size might be just a bit too small to really talk about how great of a college QB he is. obviously he's an incredible athlete with tons of talent, but he's also a freshman who has made some fairly dumb mistakes. his running speaks for itself. but at this point i'm more inclined to chalk up a high QB rating to the fact that pryor has only thrown it 46 times all year and has not been given particularly complicated passing assignments.

with that said, what he HASN'T done is throw it into triple coverage, or been fooled by blitzes or freaky looks by the D. what impresses me almost as much as his running ability is pryor's ability to learn from his mistakes extremely quickly. within a game he had figured out the speed of the game and now seems to have a decent grasp of when he can break out a run or when he has to throw it away.

there are still some caveats. his ypa is still fairly low, but that's partly a result of our WRs not doing their job (dropping passes, not geting open) and partly a result of the entire playbook not being opened. he also hasn't been asked to play through the kind of adversity he'll face on saturday, which will go a loooonnngg way towards determining how good he really is at this point. i have no doubt that pryor can develop into an incredible QB, but i'm going to hold back on saying he's incredible right now until after the game on saturday

as a side note, i hope pryor develops into more of a pat white QB than a Troy Smith QB, at least in the sense that running remains a big part of his game. pryor is just too fast and too elusive to not run the option or the read option, especially with Beanie back there as another running threat. i know Tressel loves offensive balance, but seriously, if we can rush for 275ish yards a game, why wouldn't we?
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Well, because we don't have to and we can't rush for that kind of yardage consistently if that's all we do and opponents adjust to that.

I don't think that anyone here is saying that his performance in two games has Pryor in the Heisman hunt. I sure didn't.

But, if people don't think that a freshman quarterback playing as he did against two teams that are ranked 30th-50th in the power rankings isn't very impressive, then I think they're setting their sights just a bit too high. Especially when you consider that his one interception was on a Hail Mary pass play called from the sidelines at the end of the half.
 
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Wells said Pryor has a fire and bravado like Wells saw in the resident quarterback when he arrived at Ohio State ? Troy Smith. Smith went on to lead the Buckeyes to a pair of wins over Michigan and a couple of Big Ten championships and won the Heisman Trophy in 2006 as a senior.
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uuuhhh... It was 3 wins over Michigan. The blowout, the comeback, and the shootout.
 
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Ohio State football: Placing Pryor among Big Ten QBs

by Doug Lesmerises Friday October 03, 2008, 7:00 AM


If you could trade quarterbacks for Saturday night against Wisconsin, popping any Big Ten quarterback into Ohio State's lineup against the Badgers for this one game, would you do it?
Or would you keep Terrelle Pryor, even if quarterbacks like Curtis Painter, Juice Williams and Kellen Lewis are far more experienced?
While Pryor would probably be the seventh-best quarterback in the Big 12, tops, you can make an argument that he's already the best quarterback in the Big Ten. I'm not sure you'd win that fight, but you can make it.
There are plenty of very competent Big Ten quarterbacks this year who fit very well into what their teams are trying to do. From Penn State's Daryll Clark to Northwestern's C.J. Bacher to Minnesota's Adam Weber to Michigan State's Brian Hoyer, there are a lot of quarterbacks winning games and making their coaches happy.

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Ohio State football: Do fans want Pryor lowering his shoulder?

Posted by Doug Lesmerises October 03, 2008 11:18AM


First question, before last weekend's game escapes us, is what did you like better, the Pryor Shoulder (top clip) or the Wells Hurdle (bottom clip)?
When Terrelle Pryor lowered his shoulder on the sideline last Saturday and dropped Minnesota linebacker Rex Sharpe, he earned himself a nomination for Ohio State's Jack Tatum Hit of the Week.
"That's good," OSU coach Jim Tressel said Tuesday. "I'd rather have him be there than on their Tatum list. He likes to play football."
But could a move like that help put a target on Pryor's back?

"I'm sure they're going to be looking for him reprisal or not, but he likes to play the game," Tressel said.
So the coach didn't sound like he was discouraging that kind of physical play from his freshman quarterback, though the previous week he acknowledged that keeping Pryor from taking too many hits was an issue, saying a good way to do that was to hand off to the tailback.
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MililaniBuckeye;1280041; said:
Lesmerisis can't be serious...
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I'm going to assume he's putting Daniel, Bradford, McCoy, Reesing, Freeman and Harrell in front of Pryor, that would make him number seven. I really can't complain too much about any of those six guys being ahead of him when he's only started two games to this point.
 
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