Derek Carr will be back in Bulldog Stadium next month, making yet another memory for Fresno State football fans in a venue where he won his last 13 games as a starter including scintillating victories in his senior season over Rutgers and Boise State.
The record-setting quarterback will have his No. 4 jersey retired in a halftime ceremony of the Sept. 2 season-opener against Incarnate Word, joining six others in school history including his older brother David.
“It’s a tremendous honor,” Carr said, through his business manager H Koal. “Walking down that ramp and onto the field every day for practice and games I always saw my brother’s retired jersey number up there, along with the others.