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Dick Harmon: BYU QBs forging unique bond through heated battle to find a starter

Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

PROVO — Are these guys so deep in an emotional QB war really like this? They're paddling in a pool laced with saccharine.

Tanner Mangum’s smile has significant wattage even though he’s battling to win a quarterback race during BYU’s spring camp after recovering from injury.

That Mangum has to compete every day for something he earned last summer and the fall before could give him cause to be bitter.

But he’s not.

Joe Critchlow rode a crazy roller coaster as a freshman when he ended up the last QB standing at the end of the season.