Hoping not to miss a beat in Adams' absence

In typical unassuming Vernon Adams fashion, when he stepped up to face multiple microphones last Saturday following Eastern Washington’s 56-53 football escape against Idaho State, Adams deflected praise to his teammates at becoming the Big Sky Conference’s all-time leader in touchdown passes.

All the time while rocking back and forth on a sore foot that he brushed off to having “rolled my ankle or something.”

The All-American, and frontrunner for the 2014 Walter Peyton Award, had just thrown four touchdowns — 99 in his three seasons here — and ran for two more on a right foot that was hardly j...