Week 9 Awards

It wasn't a fun weekend for the Lions.  Luckily for you, there’s always my awards!  I’ll be brief since there wasn't much to celebrate in that game.

This week, the Beast Mode Award goes to the only guy that decided to show up on Saturday, Allen Robinson.  This marks Robinson’s 3^rd time winning this award, giving him the 3 peat, the hat trick, whatever you want to call it.  Any way you slice it, he’s the man!  He had 12 catches for 173 yds and a TD.  Let’s hope for more of that against Illinois.

It was tough to find someone, but I’m going to give the Transformer Award to Bill Belton.  He solidified the starting job over fan favorite Zach Zwinak, who continues to literally fumble away his opportunities.   In an awful game, Belton was one of the few bright spots going for 98 yds on 22 carries.  Not bad.

I’m very excited to give this week’s Matrix Award to Tyler Ferguson.  The back up from California replaced Christian Hackenberg in the 3^rd quarter and still put up better stats than his counterpart.  He went 7/11 for 125 yds and a TD.  I think it’s safe to say if Hack can’t go this week, we should be fine.

No one gets the In Disguise Award this week seeing as there were no “unsung heroes” just slightly less disappointing performances.

And finally, the Megatron Award goes to Braxton Miller.  He went into his own beast mode all over Penn State’s defense.  In limited action he went 18/24 for 252 yds and 3 TDs.  Add in 11 carries for 68 more yds and 2 more TDs and I think it’s safe to say he gave us the biggest headache.  An honorable mention goes to Carlos Hyde who had 16 carries for 147 yds and 2 TD of his own.  Geez… I even hate typing those numbers.

Well that will do it for coverage of this week’s massacre.  Hopefully the blog will have a lighter tone after a win over the Illini at home this week.  The game kicks off at noon on ESPN.  Keep an eye out on Twitter @PSUOptimus for any news throughout the week.  And as always, go State!