EUGENE - Tyler Shough might be young, but he isn't stupid.
Oregon's first-year freshman quarterback wasted no time making friends with the offensive linemen.
"I'm trying to keep my butt clean," Shough said Tuesday.
At 6 feet 5, and a rail thin 205 pounds, nobody will confuse Shough with, say, 317-pound guard Shane Lemieux.
But when the offensive linemen head to dinner with Shough in tow, he has been accepted has one of the boys.
"He's really mature," Lemiuex said. "I think he hangs out with the offensive line the most of any quarterback I've ever seen.