Sam Hartman – maybe you've heard the name – won the honor last year while leading Wake Forest to a blowout win over Rutgers.
It wasn’t about injured starters Jayson Ademilola, Cam Hart and Brandon Joseph missing from the Notre Dame defense.
That look, one could safely assume, was different from the glazed-over appearance Buchner showed as a freshman last year at Virginia Tech, when the Hokies took one back 26 yards for a score. For Buchner to beat out Pyne during their offseason competition, Beamer said, “tells you everything you needed to know about him.”“I love Tyler,” Diggs said. “I feel like he went out there today and showed that he is TB12.”
“I play football because of the games,” he said. “It’s only so fun working out, doing all this stuff. Getting hurt is not very fun. To go out there for one last time this season with people that I love to the end of this world -- my teammates — it’s an unbelievable opportunity.”Buchner has had football taken away from him several times already in his young career. There was the torn ACL four plays into his sophomore season of high school.