Zack Mahoney is the greatest 1-6 quarterback in the history of Syracuse Orange football.
Mahoney’s story is already legend with SU fans. The JUCO College of DuPage quarterback came to Syracuse in 2015 as a preferred walk-on and we all assumed he was a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency backup who would never see the field for meaningful snaps.
Then, A.J. Long was ruled ineligible. Then, Terrel Hunt was lost early in the 2015 season. Then, freshman phenom Eric Dungey went down with injury. All of a sudden, Mahoney was the Syracuse starting quarterback when the mighty LSU Tigers came to town looking for an easy victory.