‘”[Khalil Shakir] is the best,” Allen said. “If you go back to last year [we] started utilizing him more in the second half of the season. On top of that, he’s a Mountain West guy so that’s a plus (Shakir played at Boise State in college, and Allen played at Wyoming – both Mountain West schools). He works his tail off, he does all the little things the right way. If you watch him when he doesn’t get the ball, he’s always one of the first ones following it, he’s always one of the first ones helping somebody up off the ground, and he’s a football player above all else.”‘