MURFREESBORO - Middle Tennessee will go into this week's contest at Marshall with a new signal-caller under center.
After redshirt sophomore quarterback went down in the second quarter against UTSA with what turned out to be a broken collarbone, redshirt freshman 's number was called. He led the Blue Raiders for the rest of the loss and will continue to do so for the remainder of the regular season.
"[Brent] is going to be missed, but John will come in and do a good job," MT head coach said. "Brent had surgery [Sunday] … he'll definitely be out for the remainder of the regular season, and then we'll see how fast he progresses and all that.