Provo • Tanner Mangum’s junior season ended abruptly last fall due to an Achilles injury, but the star-crossed BYU quarterback’s optimism never ceases.
Most observers of BYU’s spring football camp, which concludes on Saturday with a scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium, believe the 21-game starter and most experienced player in the contest to be the Cougars’ starting quarterback has fallen behind the others.
But the self-described “eternal optimist” disagrees, although he hasn’t been able to play in any of the live scrimmages in camp and won’t get any reps on Saturday, either. Mangum is still recovering from the injury he sustained five months ago at Fresno State.