FORT COLLINS — After starting 13 games as a sophomore, Nick Stevens should have known he was the guy.
He kinda did. Colorado State coach Mike Bobo said the quarterback most definitely should have known it when he earned the starting job opening week against Colorado.
Trouble was, while Stevens said he knew it himself, he didn’t always act the part of starting quarterback for the Rams.
“I think it’s more his personality, because I told him he was the guy and he started the first game, so he was the guy,” Bobo said. “You gotta have zero doubt that you can make the throw and you can be the man to play that position.”
There is a difference between the knowing and acting, and in his second time around this season as the team’s starting quarterback, Stevens sees it himself.
More importantly — and to the benefit of the team — he’s acting the part.
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