Updating Chris Givens yearlong assault on the WFU record book

On October 3rd, I examined Chris Givens stats and projected out his numbers for the rest of the season if he kept his current pace of receiving up. Here is a look at those projected numbers:

I do not believe that Givens can keep up his pace so far (27 receptions for 498 yards and 4 TD's), but let's play along and see what that would work out to: 81 receptions, 1,494 yards, and 12 touchdowns. Those numbers are astonishing, but I doubt he can maintain that pace as we hit the meat of our schedule. I don't think it would be out of the question that he could get around 70-75 receptions, and if he can keep up his pace of 14 yards per reception (which he accomplished his first two seasons), calculating his yards at 70 receptions (14*43), would give him 602 yards, which added to 498 equals 1,100 yards for the year. I believe he will get around 10 receiving TDs to accompany the catches as well.

This was before the FSU, VT, and Duke games. In those three games did the following

• Vs. FSU- 6 catches, 101 yds (16.83 ypc), 1 TD
• Vs. VT- 7 catches, 140 yds (20 ypc), 1 TD
• @ Duke- 6 catches, 147 yds (24.50 ypc), 2 TDs

On the year, Chris Givens has 46 catches for 886 yards (19.26 ypc), and 8 touchdowns over 7 games. That breaks down to the following per game: 6.57 catches, 126.6 yards, and 1.14 TD's.

If you extrapolate these numbers over the rest of the year (the final regular season 5 games, and I am going to ahead and assume that we will make a bowl...please don't hurt me), you come up with the finest season in Wake Forest receiving history:

• 39.42 more catches+ 46= 85 catches
• 759.6 more yards+886= 1646 yards
• 6.84 more touchdowns+8= 15 touchdowns

Just as a note, here are the final 5 regular season teams, what they allow in the air per game, and their pass defense ranking in the country:

• UNC- 263.4 (101st)
• ND- 225.4 (59th)
• Clemson- 208.6 (40th)
• Maryland- 226.9 (65th)
• Vanderbilt- 191.3 (27th)