Provo • Having grown up a University of Utah football fan while also emulating his favorite professional football quarterback, Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers, Zach Wilson wasn’t fully aware of what it meant to be the starting quarterback at BYU when he arrived in Provo last winter.
More people ask him for his autograph. Fellow students whisper and nod in his direction in class. People occasionally interrupt him at dinner with congratulatory words. He was even recognized by fans when he attended rival Utah’s game against USC last week.
“But it is not as crazy as I thought it would be,” Wilson said Wednesday, 11 days after he became the youngest player to ever start at quarterback for BYU.