When Sonny Dykes got his first win in five tries for SMU Saturday against Navy, his starting quarterback wasn’t Ben Hicks – who has 56 touchdown passes and 27 starts under his belt – it was a kid who was throwing passes for Lamar Consolidated High School nine months ago: true freshman Will Brown.
Brown burst onto the scene a week earlier when he relieved an erratic Hicks at halftime of SMU’s game against Michigan, and led two touchdown drives against one of the most fearsome defenses in the nation.
But who is Brown? How has he been succeeding?