Stanford’s Shaw: Love and Irwin are going to delight NFL teams
While the attention of the Stanford football program this week was mainly on the players coming in next fall, head coach David Shaw paused to praise two who are on the way out.
He predicted that both tailback Bryce Love and wide receiver Trent Irwin are going to make NFL teams “extremely happy.”
Neither senior will play in the Sun Bowl against Pitt on Dec. 31, so their college careers are over. Love, who has been hampered by ankle injuries for a season and a half, is having a medical procedure, Shaw said. Irwin sustained an unspecified injury in the first quarter of the Cal game.
Shaw insisted that neither Love nor Irwin was skipping the game just to prepare for the NFL Draft, as Christian McCaffrey did for the Sun Bowl two years ago.