Justin Kontul Answers Question No. 4

Wide receiver Carlos Hernandez leads the nation in receptions, but he's questionable for this week. What does he do well, and what would it mean if he can't play? Yeah, so Hernandez, he's been the talking point pretty much every week for Wake this season. Really, so Hernandez, when he came in last year from Washington State, it's really interesting because when he came over with Dickert as a transfer, he did not play well at all for the first half of last season, was actually benched coach even talks about it openly they had to bench him and in the in the in the second part of the season he really had this strong resurgence came in uh really started in the punt return game and then kind of grew and grew and his he was a big receiving threat from pretty much the second half of the season on and then this season has started and has just looked phenomenal the big thing is yards after the catch with Hernandez that he he is able to make plays with the ball and i think that's why he's been so successful because it's lopez setting him up in good situations but also hernandez capitalizing on those situations by you saw the first couple weeks it was hard for anyone to tackle him just because of his elusiveness his speed he just possesses such great athletic ability and whenever he's getting so many opportunities in this Wake Forest offense you can just see him whenever he's he catches it you always think he's going to extend that play just because of his his natural athletic ability so that's probably the biggest weapon he brings is someone who can grab a lot of receptions and then make a lot out of those receptions but like you said he's questionable um it's a it's a real possibility that he wouldn't go on saturday and i think if he doesn't go you'll see this offense you know really because he's the leading bell cow in that receiving core by a by a wide margin you'll have to see them turn to other guys like Jack Foley is a name to watch he had a really really nice breakout game against NC State last weekend played really well against Miami in the second half too he's a guy who you'll look to get a higher distribution of targets and you'll i i think really if that happens you will need to also rely on the ground game more just because Hernandez is such a threat through the air you could see Gio's legs more Deuce Lawrence and Ty Clark the two running back main running backs they they carry uh those guys maybe their production will go up a little bit so you'll see a lot less of an explosive Wake offense i think if Hernandez is out