ASU #8Brian Quick
Wide Receiver - WR
Height: 6-5 Weight: 210
Sophomore
Previous Affiliations
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Previous Experience
Columbia, S.C.
If ASU football had a “most improved” award measuring a player’s progress from the beginning of the season until the end, Brian Quick would have been the undisputed winner in 2008 ... wanting to tap into Quick’s enormous potential as quickly as possible, Appalachian’s coaches inserted him into the lineup before the redshirt freshman — who had played only one year of organized football prior to his arrival at ASU — had a firm grasp on the playbook ... Quick struggled through the first few games of the season, so ASU’s coaches tried a new approach — they gave Quick a limited number of plays per week to digest and put him on the field only when those plays were called ... the idea turned out to be ingenius ... in learning a little bit at a time rather than having to comprehend an entire playbook only two years after taking up the sport, Quick excelled and became one of the SoCon’s most dynamic receivers over the final month-and-a-half of the season ... with a nearly unrivaled set of physical tools and skills, many experts that have observed Quick call him perhaps the top NFL prospect to come through ASU in recent years ... he’s slated to be the starting X receiver for the Mountaineers this fall.
2008: Rebounded from a slow start to become one of the nation’s top receivers over the final month-and-a-half of the season ... had just two receptions for 20 yards through six games ... jump-started his second-half resurgance by going high over a Georgia Southern defender in the corner of the end zone to haul in a 14-yard touchdown pass in ASU’s one-point triumph ... had another acrobatic, leaping catch (see photo on p. 75) among his two receptions for 61 yards in a 26-14 win over Furman ... enjoyed a breakthrough performance in front of a national audience when he caught four passes for 172 yards, including touchdowns from 58, 50 and 31 yards out in a 70-24 demolition of third-ranked Wofford on ESPN2 ... named SoCon freshman of the Week following outburst against Wofford ... tallied three receptions for 40 yards, including a 22-yard touchdown in the SoCon-title-clinching 24-16 triumph over Elon ... averaged 5.5 receptions for 94.5 yards in first two postseason games of his career ... scored twice in opening-round win over South Carolina State ... led team with 21.6 yards per reception (min. 10) ... set an ASU freshman-record with seven touchdown receptions ... set a school-record for single-game receiving average with 43 yards per catch in the wild win over Wofford ... finished season with 23 catches for 496 yards ... named to Southern Conference’s all-freshman team.
2007: Did not register a catch in two games before sitting out the rest of the season with a back injury ... was an integral part of season-opening victory at Michigan despite not recording any receiving statistics ... after dropping what would have been a third-quarter touchdown pass, elevated high above the U-M offensive front to block a field goal late in the fourth quarter, which set up ASU’s game-winning drive ... injured his back in the following week’s win over Lenoir-Rhyne and did not see game action the rest of the season ... received a medical redshirt.
High School: : A basketball standout as well, played just one season of high school football ... made most of first year of organized football since Little League with 885 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior ... participated in the prestigious Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas ... an all-state, all-region and all-area gridiron selection ... named team’s offensive MVP ... coached by Raymond Jennings.
