This has happened once in the state’s major college football history when Utah State’s Chuckie Keeton became a season-opening starting quarterback as a freshman in 2011.
This never has happened in journalism: a story about high school football players enrolling in college in the winter that fails to list the senior prom among everything they’re potentially missing by graduating early.
Those are the challenges and opportunities awaiting BYU’s Zach Wilson, Utah’s Jack Tuttle and me. They’re in spring practice, adapting to college and trying to prove themselves as capable QBs as soon as possible. I have 700 words to go.