The Illinois Fighting Illini are looking to upset the Iowa Hawkeyes and wide receiver Malik Turner is helping the cause with a brilliant one-handed catch.
If you’re a wide receiver and not making a one-handed catch every week, well, you’re a bit of an underachiever because it seems like these plays we’d see very rarely are now routine plays.
Enter Illinois wide receiver Malik Turner who has had a problem with drops this season and isn’t yet a household name, but the Illini sophomore turned in one of the best plays of the day so far with a one-handed beauty to set up the Illini to take the lead on Iowa.
Watch this over-the-shoulder catch he snags in with one hand, courtesy of Illinois Loyalty.
Malik Turner Magic pic.twitter.com/kBjQJ3w9Ky
— IllinoisLoyalty (@IllinoisLoyalty) October 10, 2015
The catch went for 34 yards and gave the Illini some momentum in their effort to upset the undefeated and No. 22 Hawkeyes. They took a 7-6 lead and had a goal line stand to keep Iowa from retaking the lead. However, at the time of publishing, Iowa was able to get in the end zone and make it 13-7 so we’ll see if Turner has anymore highlight-reel catches in him today because the Illini may need it if they’re going to pull off theupset.
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