Where was Ben Mason?

He played. 

while i was asking for him too, i think the read option and some of other things we did in short situations put more on tape for opponents to prepare for, so im not too worried. wish more had been fakes to mason tho. 

I did.   He destroyed a few people.

he played at least a few plays early in the game, was the lone back on two play action fakes as I recall

He played more like a fullback in this game.

He played some. Fowler called his name on some nice lead blocks for Higdon.

It wasn't really a good game for him, lots of passing and read option for Shea.

I don't recall more than 1 or 2 short yardage situations that would have called for the FB dive.

I hope we get some Ben Mason trap plays next week a la Houma.

I was hoping to see his number called more as well. I'll wait for the UFR, but it seemed that he missed a bunch of blocks in the first half.

He was in his apartment fashioning a pistol slide for his wrist.

I'm sorry if you don't truly know the game of football that well, but if you thought Ben Mason was going to become some huge focal point of the offense...as a fullback, you are strongly mistaken.  He is again, a fullback.  Not a sexy player.  4th and 1, sure.  Maybe a flare here and there....but not a player to expect highlights out of weekly.  There will be some trickery down the road and he'll catch a pass but he's not exactly a go-to type on a down-to-down basis.

It also was quite obvious how much he played tonight.

Edit: lulz, did I type something wrong?

He played, M won, I'm cool with it.

Fasting.  He feasts on Spartans next week.

He was whiffing on some serious run blocking last I saw.

We saw Mason a lot last weekend. He ran almost all inside if I recall - maybe one through the C-gap on the goal line. The strength of the Wisconsin D is the LB's, esp. Anderson's, ability to anticipate the inside gaps and fill them. Chryst and his DC over-played M's apparent reliance on the FB v. Maryland to the advantage of M's RO that just killed them. I think there were 5 of those including 1 by McCaffrey for a TD.

If Mason was 100%, using a bit of a counter to that with the RO going outside against aggressive gap filling LBs was a nice scheme change-up on Harbaugh's part.

We'll continue to see Mason. Now, opponents have to worry about the FB v. the outside RO run as potential counters to each other. Diabolic Harbaugh on display.   

Man you cant have a heavyweight throwing haymakers and roundhouse kicks every week. The stud needs to build up some energy and rage for sharty. He'll be one of the main ones that will break their front seven's spirits and skeletons. Two birds with one stone. A Mason stone.

As others have said, he played and had some nice blocks, but was not as active as a ball carrier because we were hitting the C gap a lot. Ben Mason is a great ball player, but he's not a stretch runner. Just wasn't the gameplan for him tonight.

he was in for a few plays. resting him for the next weeks, he took a bit of a beating last week, might even been in double secrete concussion protocol 

I saw him miss two run blocks in the first half. He may have ended up on the shit list. It happens 

Maybe Mason could make some FGs for us. 

Game plan didn’t call for it. There were certainly points where we could of smashed but that’ll be next week. 

If this team is going to be able to convert 3rd and short out of the shotgun, watch out.

As someone whose college football coaching record is 0-0-0, I was looking for him on the 3rd and 1 situations and he was never called....

I'd bet we get a good dose of 'ole murderface next Saturday. 

When you have a player who gets compared to Chuck Norris, you want to see him unleashed.