When Artur Sitkowski makes his collegiate debut at some point this fall, the Old Bridge native will become the latest in a long line of true freshmen to play quarterback for Rutgers.
The majority of the true-freshmen quarterbacks have debuted since the turn of the century, an NJ Advance Media survey of freshmen QBs shows.
In 1972, after decades of restricting freshly minted high school graduates to either a college’s freshmen or sub-varsity team, the NCAA lifted its prohibition and made freshmen eligible to play in college football games.