Out with Player Grades and in with Three up, Three down, Inside NU's newest postgame evaluation. Rather than handing out grades to the different contributors, we'll give you three players (or position groups) whose stock went up and three players whose performances were disappointing. Here's the report from Week 2.

Stock Up

Clayton Thorson

Thorson reached a career high in passing yards for the second time in three games, and was sharp throughout Northwestern’s dominant performance, averaging a whopping 12.3 yards per attempt. Thorson dropped a beautiful deep ball in to Bennett Skowrownek for Northwestern’s first touchdown and rolled from there, with nearly every pass on target and no truly bad decisions.