We finally got to see Jerrod Heard in action. He did not disappoint early, taking his opening drive and leading the offense to a touchdown.
But did Heard do enough to lay claim to the starting job?
Charlie Strong was asked about the quarterback position in his post-game press conference. Strong was non-committal about naming the starter at that moment.
“Well, I don’t want to turn this into a quarterback controversy because now you’re saying, “okay, who’s going to start at the position where you have two guys?” Where you look at us a year ago where we weren’t as fortunate as we are right now because we had [David] Ash … you kind of sat there and said Ash is our guy.