Week 11 was one of the biggest weekends of former BYU Cougars in the NFL in recent memory, perhaps of the last decade. It wasn’t just because the Cougars finally had another starting quarterback in the NFL as plenty of other former Cougs shined.
For the first time since 2011, a former BYU Cougar started a game at quarterback in the NFL. No one since John Beck with the Washington Football Team had done it. Hill took the reins after Drew Brees went down with several broken ribs and will miss a few weeks at least.