Neuqua Valley's Mikey Dudek...

...is having quite an impact as a true freshman at Illinois. Besides being named the Big Ten Conference Freshman of the Week after the second game, a friend writes (his emphasis):

I’m a numbers guy and enjoy interesting stats. Through four games, the University of Illinois is 3-1. In two of those victories, the offense was super slow to get started and had to have big fourth quarters to pull out the win. I know in those games, and in those quarters, Mikey Dudek has done really well. So I dived into the numbers a bit and came up with this:

In quarters where Dudek has caught a pass, the U of I has scored 104 points, or 79 percent of their total points so far this year. In quarters where Dudek has not caught a pass, they’ve scored just 27 points. 

Certainly not suggesting Dudek alone accounts for such a huge percentage of their offense, but there’s no denying that when he’s involved, the offense is at its best.  Will be interesting to track as season goes along.