If the Arizona Wildcats had a game this week, offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone says he would be more than willing to throw quarterback Grant Gunnell into the fire.
“Rhett (Rodriguez), Khalil (Tate) and Grant, I have no problems with any of those guys playing in a game,” he said Thursday, roughly a week since the start of fall camp.
That is high praise for a true freshman but Gunnell, a former four-star recruit who enrolled early and participated in spring ball, is “way ahead of the curve,” Mazzone said.
“I think we [tracked] his first five practices, he’s somewhere around 70 percent completion so far,” Mazzone said.