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"600px" : "100%" ); } /* */ Friday, March 31, 2006 Reed eager to take on bigger receiving role By Jeff CallDeseret Morning News PROVO — With NFL-bound Todd Watkins gone, there is a void to fill on BYU's receiving corps.

Sophomore Michael Reed is eager to help fill it.

While freshman McKay Jacobson, the 5A All-Texas First-Team and the Texas wide receiver of the year who enrolled at BYU in January, has garnered much of the attention at that position, Reed is also expected to make big contributions this season.

Like Jacobson, Reed earned Texas 5A receiver of the year honors — in 2003.

Reed remembers well the last time he played in a game, on Nov.

19, during a heart-wrenching overtime loss to Utah.

In OT, on fourth down, quarterback John Beck threw a pass into the end zone in hopes of tying the game and forcing a second overtime.

Reed dove for the pass in the back of the end zone but wasn't able to snatch it.

Game over.

For Reed, it was season over, too.

"John lobbed it up and I tried to go get it.

It was just out of my reach," he said.

"As I was coming down, my left hand turned underneath me and all my weight came down on my thumb, making it go the opposite way.

At first, I didn't feel anything.

I kind of had the wind knocked out of me a little bit.

Then I started feeling sharp ...

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