Nothing about Tanner Mangum’s trajectory as a BYU quarterback has followed a standard career arc. From the spectacular start of freshman season to a four-way fight for the starting job as a senior, he figures his college football experience qualifies as “a little bit unpredictable.”
Mangum’s location varies only slightly every June, during the BYU Football Media Day in the school’s modern Broadcast Building. He sat in a corner of the room in 2016, as a returning starter who would lose his job to senior Taysom Hill. Then came a middle table assignment in 2017, as a presumed starter whose would struggle all season.