FAYETTEVILLE — Rice coach Mike Bloomgren is in no hurry to name a starting quarterback for the Owls’ season opener against Arkansas on Saturday.
Wiley Green, who has passed for 1,435 yards and seven touchdowns in his career, and Luke McCaffrey, a talented transfer from Nebraska, have been in a preseason-long competition for the starting job. While Bloomgren plans to keep the quarterback situation a secret until after kickoff, the Razorbacks will see both players.
“I guess we should do whatever’s best for the team,” Bloomgren said Tuesday. “It shouldn’t be about my comfort level. I was going to say my comfort level is to have a starter and have him take every rep in practice.