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Ryan Willis, young receivers break through in second half of Virginia Tech spring game

BLACKSBURG – When junior quarterback Ryan Willis walks up to the line of scrimmage these days, he’s got a pretty strong grasp of what he’s seeing. That’s a far cry from his first year in college football, when he started as a true freshman at Kansas.

“I walk out there, Ok, I go, ‘Free, strong, go,’” Willis said. “Freshman year I was like, where are they?’”

So when Willis stepped behind center on second-down-and-8 in the third quarter of Saturday’s Virginia Tech spring game, knowing the play call and seeing the defense, he had a pretty good idea of what was about to go down.