Joey McGuire had no choice but to start three quarterbacks in each of his first two seasons as Texas Tech football coach. No other way around it, thanks to injuries.
And when Tyler Shough and Behren Morton both were sidelined two years in a row, it merely extended a pattern. The last season in which the Red Raiders didn’t have a starting quarterback miss a game because of injury was 2017. The last Tech quarterback to start every game was Patrick Mahomes II in 2016.
Some might take that as a sign to avoid running the quarterback at all costs. McGuire says he doesn’t much want to use Morton in a quarterback-run game next season, but that doesn’t mean he’s shelving the quarterback-run game. Not by a long shot. He recruited West Georgia transfer Cameran Brown for the express purpose of keeping that element in the playbook.
McGuire credited senior offensive analyst Kirk Bryant with putting together scouting information for Bryant and offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Zach Kittley to review.
“The one thing I wanted whenever I asked them to look is a true dual-threat quarterback,” McGuire said recently, “because it was going to be hard to recruit a guy knowing that Behren was the number-one guy. Part of the sales pitch to him coming to Texas Tech is that, ‘We’re going to be able to play you in different situations, so it’s not like you’re just coming to be a backup.’ “
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Brown, listed at 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, was named the No. 2 quarterback at the end of spring practice, ahead of recent scholarship signees Jake Strong and Will Hammond. A…
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