On the third drive of the 2023 Boston College Football season, 6”5’ redshirt sophomore Emmett Morehead was no longer the Eagles’ starting quarterback. After an offseason in which Jeff Hafley, the rest of his staff and the whole team spent preparing for Morehead to seize the job, it took a mere 10 passing attempts for Hafley to change his starting quarterback. Enter sophomore UCF transfer Thomas Castellanos.
Despite Castellanos’ late-game heroics, BC lost that opener to NIU. And despite Hafley’s assurances that Morehead would definitely see the field again in his postgame presser, Morehead did not see a single meaningful snap for the rest of the season – or his Boston College career.