College Football Insiders “Pac-10 players to watch for 2010” series continues on the offensive side of the ball with Arizona signal caller Nick Foles.
Any coach will tell you that getting a large number of reps in practice is important. They will also tell you that repetitions in practice and the experience gained from snaps in real games are not the same things. Even though he didn’t get the full-time quarterback job until the fourth game of last season, Nick Foles still managed to put up 409 passes. A high percentage of those were quick throws and screens in Arizona’s short passing game, but any time a quarterback is dropping back and throwing the ball more than 50 times in multiple games during a season, you