Thompson Allows Several Big Plays to Meachem in First Collegiate Start
BY Steven Dunst
After practice a few days before the No. 9 Cal football team traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., wide receiver DeSean Jackson remarked that although redshirt freshman Syd'Quan Thompson looked promising in practice, he was not yet on the same level as senior leader Tim Mixon, who suffered a season-ending knee injury. And that was if Thompson was playing with two good hands. The feisty 5-foot-10 corner won the starting job at cornerback in his first collegiate game despite wearing a cast on his hand because of a fractured thumb. But Thompson was no match for the Volunteers' physically-imposing 6-foot-3 Robert Meachem, who escaped Thompson's grasp twice en route to long touchdowns.
"I think the cast was the main reason he couldn't be himself," senior linebacker Desmond Bishop said. Thompson was more leery of blaming the cast for the missed tackles. "I don't want to use that as an excuse," he said. "I was out there to make plays. I came out on the short end of the plays."
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