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After BYU’s poor offensive performance vs. Cal, calls for freshman QB Zach Wilson have already begun

Provo • When a starting quarterback competition goes into the final week of preseason camp, questions are naturally going to arise when the player who gets the nod struggles in the first few games of the season.

On the heels of last Saturday’s 21-18 loss to California in which BYU quarterback Tanner Mangum completed just 22 of 41 passes for 196 yards and was intercepted twice, head coach Kalani Sitake fielded a question in his Monday news conference about whether he considered a change during the game.

Did coaches think about giving freshman Zach Wilson — whom Mangum beat out for the starting job a week before the opener at Arizona — a shot when the offense was struggling in the third and fourth quarters?