In his three years as Miami Hurricanes coach, Mark Richt has made it clear — competition is essential, particularly at the quarterback position.
He has no intention of changing that philosophy, but he conceded Monday morning that with his development in recent weeks and his play, redshirt freshman N’Kosi Perry will likely be the leader in the off-season quarterback race heading into the 2019 season.
“He’s in the driver’s seat,” Richt responded when asked about Perry potentially being Miami’s quarterback of the future during his weekly radio appearance with WQAM-560’s Joe Rose. “But, there’s some other guys on campus as we know in [Cade] Weldon and [Jarren] Williams that are talented guys and they’re going to get their chance to perform every single day, in the spring especially, and show what they’ve got.