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Can BYU use Austin Kafentzis as 2018 version of Matt Bellini?

Eugene Tanner, AP

PROVO — Austin Kafentzis has the speed, a four-star recruit résumé backed by ridiculously gaudy high school numbers, and enough experience as a college transfer nomad to scream out he is due for a break.

That’s the situation the most decorated high school quarterback in Utah history finds himself in during BYU spring practices. He is no longer in the quarterback room. He is now a regular face in running backs coach AJ Steward’s meetings after his 2017 season. That was a campaign in which he was used as a scout team quarterback and also used to run out of the wildcat formation before switching to running back in the closing games of BYU's four-win season.