Senior quarterback Brandon Jones would have 673 yards passing on 49 percent completion percentage with four touchdowns and five interceptions in his first season with the Miners.
The UTEP Miner football team recently added junior college transfer quarterbacks, Gavin Hardison of New Mexico Military Institute and Isiah Bravo of Cerritos College. This move now brings their total of quarterbacks on the roster to seven including the currently suspended Kai Locksley, who is still facing a litany of charges for his arrest in June. Locksley the incumbent starter was charged with driving while intoxicated, possessing less than two ounces of marijuana and unlawful carrying of a weapon as well as making a “terroristic threat.