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BYU backup QB Jaren Hall will be juggling baseball with football this spring as he tries to earn a spot in the Cougars’ outfield

That’s the day BYU will hold its spring football game at LaVell Edwards Stadium. It’s also the day that BYU’s baseball team is scheduled to play Portland up the road at Miller Park.

There’s a possibility that freshman quarterback/outfielder Jaren Hall could play in both games, perhaps duplicating feats pulled off by past Cougar QBs Jim McMahon and Ryan Hancock.

“Yeah, I can see something like that happening,” Hall said Monday before practicing with the BYU baseball team, which opens its season Friday against Northwestern in Mesa, Ariz. “I am not exactly sure how the schedule will work out, but that would be a great day — play a game of baseball, and then hop over to the football field, just across the street.