Wagner was held to just 19 yards rushing and 111 yards overall.
Samuel Brown had a pair of touchdown runs for the Scarlet Knights.Īl-Shadee Salaam and Rashad Rochelle each ran for scores. Wimsatt completed 4 of 11 passes for 63 yards. Simon threw for 156 yards on 10-of-13 passing. Rutgers finished with 585 yards of offense that included 323 yards on the ground. Nick Kargman found Jayvin Little in the back of the end zone for a 8-yard touchdown pass-and-catch to cap an eight-play, 75-yard drive early in the second quarter for Wagner (0-2). Happy for him on the sidelines and then I went out there and did that one and he’s right there to greet me when I get back on the sideline.” “Whatever coach needs us to win the game, and I feel like we pick up each other’s energy, which is great, you know, he threw a touchdown. “Honestly, I don’t think it affects it at all really,” Wimsatt said.
Simon threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Langan late in the second quarter to stretch the Scarlet Knights’ lead to 38-7 at halftime.īoth signal callers said the quarterback carousel doesn’t affect their rhythm. “AC ( Aron Cruickshank) is a great player, and he made a heck of a catch.” Battle cries invoked heavenly aid, while trumpets and kettledrums beat out a rhythm. “So he enjoys that.”įor Simon and Wimsatt, the touchdown passes were the first of their careers. “I was really happy for him because no matter how far he goes in football playing tight end, he’s a quarterback at heart,” Schiano said. Simon later threw a 40-yard touchdown pass, Wimsatt added a 41-yarder and Langan, a former quarterback, connected with Isaiah Washington on a 43-yard touchdown pass as the Scarlet Knights (2-0) scored on their first four possessions. Rutgers proceeded to go down the field on an 11-play, 62-yard drive spanning 4:27, capped by a Kyle Monangai 2-yard touchdown run to take an early lead. “Now we have two tapes to teach from, two game tapes, and we’ll do a lot of things with cut ups and putting those games together and showing them.”Īfter Wagner opened the game with a 31-yard pass play, Rutgers’ defense tightened and stopped the Seahawks on fourth-and-4. I think there’s some things that we’ve really got to get better, fast, because time is our enemy right now,” Schiano said. Veteran signal caller Noah Vedral remained out with an upper-body injury. Highly-touted recruit Gavin Wimsatt made his first career start at quarterback, but Rutgers coach Greg Schiano continued to jockey the position between the redshirt freshman and third-year sophomore Evan Simon. Tight end Johnny Langan threw and caught a touchdown pass as Rutgers rolled to a 66-7 rout of Wagner on Saturday.
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