How state players fared this week

Tyler Coyle, Purdue: Windsor’s Tyler Coyle led Purdue with season-high 11 tackles in a 37-27 loss to Nebraska.

The 6-foot-2 inch, 215pound Coyle is a one-year graduate transfer from UConn.

The former standout played in 11 games for UConn last season, leading the team with 86 total tackles, including 54 solo stops.

Purdue’s defensive coordinator Bob Diaco was the head coach at UConn during Coyle’s 2015 and 2016 redshirt seasons.

This season, Coyle only had two tackles coming into the Nebraska game before picking up eight solo and three assisted tackles from his outside linebacker position.

Coyle missed the first two games of this season with a foot injury and has been slowly working his way back.

SCOOTER SCORES

Greenwich’s Scooter Harrington caught his second career touchdown pass for Stanford on Saturday.

The fifth-year tight end hauled in a 3-yard pass from Davis Mills in the third quarter for Stanford’s final score in a 31-26 win over No. 23 Washington.

Off of play action, Mills found the 6-5, 250-pound Harrington in the left corner of the end zone for the touchdown that made it 31-10.

Mills’ first touchdown pass was his third of the season, finishing a 69-yard, seven-play drive for the Cardinal.

Harrington’s first career touchdown came two weeks ago against Colorado.

RUNNING LION

In Penn State’s 23-7 victory over Rutgers, backup quarterback Will Levis ran the ball on 17 of the team’s 57 carries for 65 yards. He did not attempt a pass playing in the Nittany Lions twoquarterback system.

The redshirt sophomore, who is from Madison and played at Xavier, has been Penn State’s most used runner over the last four games with 56 carries. The team is 2-2 in those games.

The last pass Levis attempted came was an incompletion in the second quarter against Iowa Nov. 21.

He was 13-of-16 for 106 yards in the first half of that game working as the starter, but was replaced in the third quarter by Sean Clifford and has not thrown a pass since.

When asked about Levis passing the ball after the game, Penn State coach James Franklin said: "We have to mix some passes in there, no doubt about it. The weather was also a significant factor, but we have to mix some passes in there to be sure they respect it."

He now has 186 yards and one touchdown on the ground and 325 yards passing with no touchdowns through the air.