ESPN Seattle: Seahawks OC Darrell Bevell on Trevone Boykin’s debut in the huddle
BY BRADY HENDERSON, 710 ESPN Seattle
RENTON – One of the challenges that rookie Trevone Boykin faces as he tries to win a job as the Seahawks’ backup quarterback is his inexperience in calling plays in the huddle, something he wasn’t asked to do while running a spread offense at TCU. That made Seattle’s preseason opener a test of how well Boykin could communicate in a game situation, amid the noise of an opposing crowd and without a coach nearby to correct him when he flubs his lines.
Offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said Tuesday that it “went about the way I expected†for Boykin, which is to say that it wasn’t perfect but not bad, either.
“He’s doing a great job of being in his book and he’s studying, he’s working, but those plays are long and have a lot of words to them,†Bevell said. “Every now and then he had a couple struggles, but for the most part he was on his stuff, did a nice job. The cool part is that it didn’t hamper his play, so he was still able to play fast and play well; he wasn’t thinking.â€
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