When Stanford junior quarterback Keller Chryst makes his first career start Saturday, the Cardinal will become the eighth Pac-12 team to start at least two quarterbacks this season.
Stanford coach David Shaw joins USC’s Clay Helton and Oregon’s Mark Helfrich who made the difficult decision to make a mid-season change at quarterback because of ineffective play.
“We were not getting enough production from the position,” Shaw said this week after benching senior Ryan Burns who guided an offense that ranks last in the Pac-12 in scoring (17 points per game) and total offense (299.