“Well, let’s just name the starting quarterback and get it over with,” Chris Petersen said sarcastically, sitting in front of a purple backdrop inside Husky Stadium’s Touchdown Terrace on Friday morning.
“Who is it?” a media member asked.
“Me,” Petersen responded.
But alas, Petersen — a former quarterback at Sacramento City College and UC Davis — is, in fact, out of eligibility. His five scholarship signal callers this spring — junior Jacob Eason, sophomore Jake Haener, redshirt freshmen Jacob Sirmon and Colson Yankoff and early enrollee freshman Dylan Morris — are six practices into a quarterback competition that promises to stretch well into the summer.