As the Bobcats’ 2016 season went from bad to worse in the second half of the schedule, head coach Everett Withers did the logical thing and played the younger players and backups in order to evaluate talent. That included the quarterback situation going into 2017.
Incumbent quarterback Tyler Jones was rolling along his senior year but, in the middle of the eight game losing streak the Bobcats were suffering through, Withers inserted Missouri transfer Eddie Printz and junior Connor White under center throughout the twilight of 2016. The idea was to groom one of these guys into the next solid and reliable Texas State quarterback for the 2017 season.