Utah's 13 Kelvin York makes a catch during the game against the Northern Colorado Bears at the University of Utah on Thursday, August 30, 2012.
Laura Seitz, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Sophomore tight end Jake Murphy had a career night in Utah's 41-0 victory over Northern Colorado. Murphy led the Utes in receiving with six catches for 78 yards and two touchdowns — all career highs.
"Jake Murphy has unbelievable ball skills for a tight end," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. "He'll be a factor for us all season."
Murphy acknowledged it was awesome to get the opportunities he did in the season opener.
"(Brian Johnson) calls the plays and was pretty confident in me coming into the game," Murphy said. "I was just happy he called them. We just executed well and I'm happy with it."
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Nice job, Murph. The offense looked really deep last night. 5 different TEs saw significant action, 8 WRs, 3 RBs, and the "Wilson package" was fun, too, but you have to wonder how deep they'll go against the tougher teams on the More..
Utes just getting warmed up! Go UTES!
Those are probably good assumptions on your part StG. What a team is able to do with "spreading it around" against bad teams is not usually what they can do against good teams. But if you are playing a bad team, like utah was, then it is good More..