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Skyler Howard focused on winning title, not QB job

Today’s video brings another installment in the MetroNews countdown of the 10 Most Pivotal Mountaineers for the 2015 football season. These aren’t necessarily West Virginia’s “best” 10, or the ones appearing on those bloated preseason watch lists. But they’re the players whose production will hold answers to the biggest preseason questions.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Upon enrolling at West Virginia before spring practice in 2014, Skyler Howard was erratic, uncertain and ticketed for a redshirt season. Then injuries to Clint Trickett and William Crest eventually forced Howard into action, and the transfer quarterback gave a lesson in rapid progress.