University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Russ Huesman likes seeing quarterback Terrell Robinson run. But forward, not backward.
Robinson, who has replaced the injured B.J. Coleman, has 186 yards on 35 carries in the Mocs’ past two games. But that total would be even higher if the redshirt freshman had avoided several losses for big yardage last week against Western Carolina by either going down or “throwing it seven rows deep,” Huesman said.
He was sacked twice for minus-19 yards and was brought down for an 8-yard loss on a run.
“What makes him good is hitting it downhill on some of these run plays, getting on the edge quickly and going,” Huesman said. “He hasn’t been real good running around in the back back there.”
Barring a rapid rebound by Coleman, Robinson will start this week when UTC visits Elon. Coleman did not practice Tuesday.