Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Brigham Young Cougars quarterback Zach Wilson (11) is interviewed during football media day in Provo on Tuesday, June 18, 2019.
PROVO — When BYU coach Kalani Sitake first started talking to Jeff Grimes about the offensive coordinator opening on his staff in December 2017, Grimes asked him about the program’s quarterback situation.
“You don’t want to take a job as an offensive coordinator without knowing that,” Grimes recently recalled.
So Sitake went down the list of QBs on the roster — their strengths, their weaknesses. Then he told Grimes there was a local quarterback that he was recruiting that had originally committed to Boise State but had recently reopened his recruitment.