To most, it had to do with Andrew Luck, the Colts' quarterback, who at age 29 announced his retirement. Luck, who has battled bad shoulder problems through much of his career, stepped away after the game against the Bears, leaving $64 million on the table (though after making around $100 million).
TigerBlog saw that he was actually booed by the Colts' fans as he left the field and news of his retirement had begun to swirl. Booed? That's pretty harsh.
Anyway, that's not the news TB was talking about anyway.
Nope, this was:
Nice toss, @tbrayvol8!@JHorsted hauls it in and puts us up two scores. #CHIvsIND pic.twitter.com/NI9YWGV4Kf— Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) August 25, 2019
If you're a Princeton football fan, you've seen this before. Twenty-eight times, to be exact.
Horsted is Princeton's career leader in career receptions and touchdown receptions. He caught 28 touchdown passes in his Tiger career (with two more rushing TDs as well).
A year ago he earned All-America honors and was one of two finalists for the Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, finishing as runner-up to his teammate, quarterback John Lovett. Princeton went 10-0 in 2018, winning its third Ivy title in six years.
These days, Horsted is an undrafted free agent hoping to make the Bears roster. He certainly didn't hurt his chances in the third preseason game, leading the team with 39 receiving yards on three catches, including his first pro touchdown.
Horsted's touchdown catch was very familiar. It's the kind of play he routinely made at Princeton, using his 6-4 size and the athletic ability that made him first-team All-Ivy and a pro prospect in both football and baseball - not to mention simply his desire - to come up with receptions on what could be termed 50-50 balls.
By the way, when TB was looking at the box score from the game, he saw that Horsted's three catches led his team but that one player on the Colts had four catches, a player named "D Cain." TB checked to make sure it wasn't "Dean Cain," the former Princeton All-America and long-time actor, whose credits include playing Superman.
It wasn't. It was Deon Cain, who played at Clemson.
Speaking of Princeton's in the NFL, Stephen Carlson, Horsted's fellow Princeton alum/undrafted free agent receiver, is in the Cleveland Browns' camp. Carlson had one reception in Cleveland's 13-12 loss to Tampa Bay.
For Carlson it was his second reception of the preseason. Carlson is listed as a tight end for the Browns, who also have another Princeton alum, Seth DeValve, who is in his fourth NFL season.
Carlson, like Horsted, is great near the goal line. He seems to have been having a really good summer with the Browns, and like Horsted, the practice squad would seem to be a good destination to start the season, if it comes to that.
Lovett, by the way, is with the Kansas City Chiefs, who 1) is out for a few weeks with a shoulder injury and 2) had by all reports been carving out a nice place for himself with the Chiefs before he got hurt.
The KC depth chart lists Lovett as a fullback, not a quarterback. TB wrote last year that Lovett reminds him of Taysom Hill of the New Orleans Saints, who was a quarterback at BYU but who can throw, run or catch and who became a huge part of the team's offense a year ago.
Hill's success could make teams look at a versatile player like Lovett in a different way.
Princeton is also represented in the NFL by alums Chad Kanoff (quarterback in his second year with the Cardinals) and Caraun Reid (sixth year defensive lineman, now with the Colts and owner of two career NFL touchdowns).
That's six alums in NFL camps. That's pretty good.
Of course, that's what happens when you have the level of success Princeton football has had in recent years.
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