Elijah Sarratt came to Indiana to show he could excel against the nation’s top secondaries. Omar Cooper Jr. stuck around his home state, hoping to get the same opportunity.

Now, under the brightest spotlight, both are outperforming expectations.

Seven games into their second season together, the Hoosiers top two receivers find themselves ranked among the Football Bowl Subdivision’s statistical leaders, increasingly becoming the targets of defensive game plans and leading an emerging group of playmakers as No. 2 Indiana chases a second straight playoff bid.

Sarratt saw the possibilities early on.

“There’s a lot of talent in that (receivers) room,” he said in September. “We work to make each other better. We all want to catch every single pass, but we understand that the ball has to be s

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