How the NFL Beavers are doing
Former Oregon State P Johnny Hekker is already making a name for himself with the St. Louis Rams. They signed him as a free agent after the draft. Read this story from GT sister paper, the St. Louise Post-Dispatch about him. Hekker looks like he has the starting job as long as he can perform...
Hekker getting an NFL look
Former Oregon State P Johnny Hekker was invited to a new NFL Super Regional Combine to perform for coaches and scouts. Hekker impressed folks at an NFL Regional Combine recently. He has been busy trying to get an NFL team interested in him. Read more about what he has been up to in my story...
What could have been with Ryan Allen
A few years ago a battle raged on my blog about punters. Yes, punters. Some Oregon State fans wanted to run P Johnny Hekker out of town for his poor freshman season, and he turned out pretty good. However, Option 2 was a West Salem High kid Ryan Allen. Some readers thought he would be...
Specialists feel the pain
While you are sitting in traffic on the way to shopping, I’m here to kill some of your time with some reading about the Oregon State football team. Here’s my link to my main story in Friday’s GT. It’s on two senior specialists playing their final game for the Beavers. Ready about P Johnny Hekker...
Hekker honored
Oregon State senior P Johnny Hekker was named the College Performance Awards Punter of the Week on Monday. He broke the OSU record for average yards per punt in a game at 52.5 yards at Utah last weekend. Hekker also placed three punts inside the 20-yard-line and had four of 50-plus yards. His career 41.2...
Poyer, Hekker honored; recruiting update
Oregon State CB Jordan Poyer was named the Pacific-12 Conference Special Teams Player of the Week and the College Football Performance Awards punt returner of the week on Monday. He returned a punt 85 yards for a TD against UCLA on Saturday, and had 100 punt return yards on the day. Poyer added 56 kickoff return...
Camp Day 10 notes
True freshman WR Brandin Cooks became the latest injured Oregon Sate football player. He went down in the Wednesday night practice with a sprained ankle. Cooks will be out at least a week, coach Mike Riley said. Cooks was being groomed as a flanker for this season with James Rodgers (knee) still rehabbing and Darrell...
Cliff: Kicking and punting
Former Oregon State special teams coach Dave Ungerer returns to Corvallis in the same capacity with Washington State for Saturday’s game. Read more about him in Friday’s GT here. And here’s my notebook, leading off with scheduling issues of Washington State and OSU. “It will be different coming back on the visitor side, but it...
Cliff: Kicking issues, OL depth
Oregon State kicker Justin Kahut missed his third field goal in six tries this season Saturday against Cal. It was a wet day, but he still should have made the 37-yarder in the middle of the field. Coach Mike Riley reviewed the video and has the same opinion. His other two misses were from 47...
Cliff: Cornerbacks
The strength of the Oregon State football team’s defense should be the secondary, safeties in particular. However, the cornerbacks have come along and must be on top of their games, or the defense will be in trouble. There’s been little written about the corners because they’ve been as solid as expected in training camp. The...
Cliff: Early Day 3 notes
Kellen Clute of Mead, Wash., verbally committed to the Oregon State football team. He’s a 6-foot-5, 226-pound athlete from Mt. Spokane High who played running back in a spread offense. However, he’s being considered at a tight end. Clute the 11th known commitment for the 2011 class, and the first tight end. Ray Guy watch...
Cliff: Kahut on kicking
Oregon State kicker Justin Kahut spent much of spring practice tinkering with his form. There have been some rough spots, and breaking in a new holder didn’t help. My Friday story in the GT addresses the new holder in P Johnny Hekker. The stories also touches on him kicking off, and punting of course. Kahut,...
