Monmouth Piles up 565 Yards in 49-13 Rout of Hampton
Hampton is 0-6, and this was not the game to fix that. Monmouth rolled up 565 yards to the home team's 249 and won 49-13.
For a half, it was closer than that sounds. Nothing happened until the second quarter, when Frankie Weaver found Kenny Smith Jr. from 11 yards out, Hampton answered with a Xavier Brookins one-yard run to tie it at 7-7, and Nazir Treadwell's one-yard score just before the break made it 14-7. After that Monmouth scored 35 of the game's last 41 points. Weaver threw touchdown passes of 8 and 5 yards in the third quarter, Elijah Jennings scored from a yard out to open the fourth, and Smith broke a 70-yard run to make it 42-7.
Hampton did get a 13-yard Tre'Von Taylor touchdown pass to TK Paisant (the two-point try failed), but Greg Randall's three-yard run with 1:53 left closed the book. Monmouth ran 49 times for 298 yards, threw for 267, and committed no turnovers at all. Hampton did not turn it over either, which tells you how much good that did. It was simply outgained by 316 yards.
Hampton's offense managed 249 yards. Tre'Von Taylor was 6 of 10 for 97 yards and the one touchdown pass, and the team did not record a sack against Monmouth's three. Meanwhile Monmouth's receivers ate too: Tra Neal caught five passes for 45 yards and a score, and Gavin Nelson caught five for 60. Naz Treadwell added 11 carries and a touchdown. Everybody got a plate.
Monmouth moves to 6-1. For fantasy purposes, Weaver, Smith and Jennings all posted season highs on the same afternoon, which does not happen often. Take the ride, but remember who the opponent was.