Austin Carr is to Clayton Thorson what Julian Edelman is to Tom Brady. The dude just gets open and moves the sticks.
The redshirt senior came to Northwestern as a preferred walk-on and currently leads the Big Ten in receptions with 50 — Curtis Samuel and Minnesota’s Drew Wolitarsky are second with 37. Carr also leads the conference with 720 yards receiving and 9 receiving touchdowns — including six straight games with a score. He averages 7 receptions and 102.9 yards per game, and is the key cog to the Wildcat offense, which is improving on a weekly basis.