LINCOLN, Neb. — Jedd Fisch won’t take credit for drawing up the play for Chris Lawson’s acrobatic fourth-down catch.
“I said, ‘We’re going to go gun, trips right, sick catch,’” the UW coach joked.
Facing fourth-and-18 with his team trailing by four points, Fisch knew the Huskies couldn’t throw anything underneath. He wanted them to get Lawson into a one-on-one matchup. And he knew they needed the offensive line to hold up long enough for the sophomore wide receiver’s stutter-and-go route to get the defensive back to bite. The rest, Fisch said, was up to Lawson.
“What separates wideouts is the one-on-one, 50-50 ball, and you’ve got to come down with it,” Fisch said. “He came down with it and it was pretty awesome.”
Lawson’s fourth-down catch helped Washington set up the go-ahead touchdown on its way to an unlikely comeback victory against Nebraska at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday. Here are three more takeaways from UW’s second Big Ten victory.
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