football coach DJ Durkin has always used competition in practice to determine the pecking order on his team’s depth chart. It doesn’t matter whether the head-to-head battles were taking place at spring workouts in April, preseason camp in August or at the end of his first season last fall.
A year after then-senior Perry Hills emerged from a goup of quarterback candidates and was quickly named the starter in preparation of the season opener against Howard, the battle to be No. 1 on the depth chart this season likely won’t be decided until right before the Sept.