Tabitha Sumsion, BYU
PROVO — The survivor has to be pretty good, right? Nobody’s stumbling into the job as BYU’s starting quarterback.
It’s been decades but there was a time two carloads of quarterbacks were vying for the starting job at BYU.
Today a similar number of QB candidates are in BYU spring camp with hopes and dreams. There’s 21-game starter Tanner Mangum, 2017 season-ending starter Joe Critchlow, Beau Hoge, Kody Wilstead, Hayden Griffitts, then freshmen Zach Wilson, Stacy Conner and Baylor Romney.
In the spring of 1980, freshman Steve Young was discouraged and homesick and the list of quarterbacks in front of him was legion.