The play was White 14 General, and with nothing cooking midway through Toledo’s spring football game Friday night, the marching orders arrived.
Technically, the call — a reverse pass from receiver to quarterback — featured a run option, too. But let’s not kid ourselves: Desmond Phillips, a junior wideout from Miami, did not throw 28 touchdowns as a prep passer for nothing. Come hell or two-high coverage, he was flinging it.
Phillips took the reverse handoff, spotted Eli Peters streaking open toward the end zone, and hit him in stride for an 18-yard score.
Just like that, the Rockets’ quarterback derby had a new — if self-appointed — entrant.