TE Tyler Higbee on last year's performance, impression of rookie Brycen Hopkins

TE Tyler Higbee on last year's performance, impression of rookie Brycen Hopkins
Aug 14, 2020 at 07:16 PM

Stu Jackson
Staff Writer

"I just tried to do my job. I don't know if anything clicked, I think some opportunities were presented to me more and I just tried to take advantage of them."
Asked if there was anything "clicked" during the second half of the 2019 season – a period of success which paved the path to him setting franchise tight-end single-season records for receptions and receiving yards – Higbee indicated it was simply a case of capitalizing on when his number was called.

On Hopkins:

"He's a great dude. A little quiet at first. I think that might be part of the rookie coming into a new environment, but a good dude."
Higbee had good things to say about Hopkins approaching two weeks of being on the practice field together.
Even in that short amount of time, Higbee said the Purdue product has "already made strides."

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"(He's) probably in the best shape of his life right now."