Not long after Kansas State busted Oklahoma with a pop toss to fullback Glenn Gronkowski, OU countered with a run/pass option play of its own, while backed up on its own 1-yard line.
Trevor Knight throws pick-six on baffling call by Oklahoma
Oklahoma and Trevor Knight made a strange play call on their own goal line. The results were ugly, but predictable.
Facing first-and-11 after a penalty, Oklahoma called a power run play, but strangely decided to provide Trevor Knight with the option to also throw a quick out to the receiver on the wide side of the field.
Despite KSU showing a two-deep coverage and a field corner who was in close proximity to the receiver, Knight opted not to hand the ball off on a power run, but instead to flip it out and try to beat KSU CB Danzel McDaniel, a rising star in the Big 12.
This is what followed:
Via ESPN
So many questions on this play. Why include an out route to the field as an option when backed up on your own goal line? Don't they realize how far the ball has to travel? Or how little the corner has to travel before he's in the end zone with the ball? Why call an option play at all when in such a precarious spot? What did Knight see that made him think this was the right read?
In the meantime, it’s just another edition of “when POP plays go wrong.”
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