FORT COLLINS — Running back Mi- chael Myers waited until the fourth quarter against BYU to score Colorado State’s only offensive touchdown in two games. He won’t wait that long to get in Saturday at New Mexico.
CSU running game coordinator Dave Lay said Monday that Myers will play before halftime. But Lay didn’t foresee a change in the rotation order of Gartrell Johnson, Kyle Bell and Myers.
In the past two games, against Utah and BYU, CSU has scored two touchdowns, both against the Cougars: Myers’ 3-yard run and defensive end Jesse Nading’s 31-yard interception return.
Myers, the quickest of the backs, has only 13 carries for the season but has the best per-carry average of the three at 6.9 yards.
Although the Rams have struggled in the red zone, CSU averages 156.3 yards a game on the ground. Lay said the offensive line keeps improving and is showing some consistency. For the first time this season, the Rams have gone three consecutive weeks with the same starting five.
Relatively speaking. CSU coach Sonny Lubick wasn’t naming names, but certainly Notre Dame comes to mind. “If you look around, we’re in a lot better shape than a lot of the teams in the country,” he said despite the Rams’ 1-8 record. “We have fun, we’re playing, the kids are enjoying it and I am (enjoying it).”
Backup QB update. Backup quarterback Billy Farris underwent an MRI on Monday for an elbow injury in his throwing arm. He felt something wrong while attempting a long pass in last Thursday’s practice.
If surgery is required, he could be sidelined past spring ball. Grant Stucker, a third-year sophomore from Ponderosa, will get more work in practice if Farris can’t go, but Lubick said he probably hasn’t had enough work to play in a game.
Lubick primarily works with the defensive secondary in practice and has had a better view of freshman scout-team quarterbacks T.J. Borcky (6-feet-4, 185, of Orlando, Fla.) and Klay Kubiak (6-0, 190, of Regis).
“Borcky looks like he could be a real quarterback,” Lubick said. “Not only can he throw the ball, but he has great speed, can run and was well coached by his dad. I’m pretty excited about him for the future. … They are both real sharp guys. I think Klay is more the tough, stand-in-there guy.”
Lubick cautioned that players often look good on the scout team. “Then they start getting coached and don’t look so good,” he said.
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