Exactly. Make the catch first, period. The throw was not perfect. Had he tried to make a catch just so he could keep running, and drops the ball, that's bad. Very bad. He did his job, and the coaches would say the same thing.
Key is getting him to play more than 5 snaps a game. Every time he was in there last year he was mauling whatever was in front of him. It's been a while since I saw a UM DT that looked like a wrecking ball shot out of a cannon.