Yesterday, the Hokies faced off against 0-3 Wofford in the first game since the end of the Brent Pry era. They won 38-6, you can read more about that here. A lot of players made big impacts in Virginia Tech's first win of the season, but Kyron Drones and Kemari Copeland stood out above the rest.
Looking into Drones first, he had a very big game that will have a big impact on his confidence going forward, which he desperately needed.
"I thought he worked the game plan really well," Montgomery said. "They do so much to keep the roof on, whether it was in some form of [cover] two, three, three cloud... We had a couple double move things that we tried to hit, we had a couple shots down the field that we tried to hit that just weren't there. They were [defending] just too deep. He did a good job."
Drones went 27/32 with 307 yards and four touchdowns, two of which came on the ground. He had a spectacular PFF grade of 90.1, which is a career high grade for him.
When blitzed, he was fantastic, with a 93.8 pass grade under those circumstances.
As I mentioned, Drones was desperately looking for confidence, and Saturday may have been his best overall passing day in a Virginia Tech uniform, completing a career high (except for two games where he combined to go 3/3 overall) 84.4% of his passes.
Diving into Kemari Copeland, he also had a fantastic game with half a sack and an interception. He graded out phenomenally per PFF, with a 92.9 overall grade.
"I was just working to the boundary and I see the ball in the air," Copeland said about his first collegiate interception. "It happened in two seconds, it was crazy.
The Hokies held Wofford to negative one total rush yards, the last time that they did that was in 2012 in a 28-22 loss against Florida State. They held FSU to -15 rush yards. Copeland played a huge role in holding Wofford that low, as he also contributed to a TFL on top of his sack.
Wofford had 141 total yards, which is the least they've allowed since they held Duke to 35 total yards in a 45-0 win in 2005.
