Dekoda Watson was one of the few caught off guard.Casually asked what he thought about “Jonathan Dwyer,” his mind went blank. And even after scouring his memory several seconds for an answer, he couldn’t find anything concrete.
“Nothing ... because I don’t know who that is,” he slowly responded, as if waiting for the punch line to a joke.
Perhaps an extra bit of qualifying information about Dwyer would help him out: “He’s Georgia Tech’s star running back.”
Throwing up his hands in disbelief, the Florida State linebacker kicked himself for not knowing Dwyer’s name initially. He just had to place the name with the Yellow Jackets’ star’s face.
Oh, he knows who Dwyer is. Watson knows exactly who the star running back is in the offense he called the “smartest and most frustrating” he has ever played against.
But Watson wasn’t alone. A handful of other players representing ACC schools had similar looks of “Jonathan, who?” when asked Sunday afternoon about the exploits of the reigning ACC player of the year.
Ask those same guys, Watson included, about the name “C.J. Spiller,” however, and their eyes instantly lit up.
“I like C.J., he’s a good player. He’s agile, he’s fast. He has the chance to be a Heisman Trophy winner, and I just hope he plays to the best of his ability,” Watson said.
