Dana Holgorsen said Shelton Gibson should have “easily” been a 1,000-yard receiver last season. Gibson disagrees. He should have had 1,500 yards, he says. The difference? Well, there were the drops as well as the uneven performances.

Time passes and you forget things or allow them to be covered by other facts.

Gibson was No. 2 nationally in yards per catch last year. He had 14 receptions of 25 or more yards. He averaged more than 44 yards on his nine touchdowns. He was one of the most explosive players going … when he was going.

Gibson had two games with no catches, two with one catch, one with 35 yards receiving and one with 36. That’s essentially still water for half of the regular season, and that means he forfeited a lot of opportunities to get the 113 yards he needed to reach four digits.

The goal now is to recoup those opportunities and get those 113 — or 613 — yards he missed out on in 2015.

“I would be OK with twice as many catches and 18 yards a catch,” coach Dana Holgorsen said. “That would be fine.”

That would still be impressive, too. Only 28 players in the nation and five in the Big 12 averaged more than 18 yards per catch last season. Only one player in the Big 12 and two others in the country reached that average on at least 70 receptions.

It’s a hard place to get to, but the Mountaineers believe there’s just one route to follow.

“Consistency,” receivers coach Tyron Carrier said. “That’s it. We can see the big plays every once in a while, but you have to be consistent. We have to be able to depend on you over and over. That’s how it goes.”