Texas Tech football all-decade team: The quarterbacks

Wrapping up our look at the Texas Tech football program’s all-decade team, we turn our attention to the quarterbacks where the first-team choice is a no-brainer.

Quarterback. There’s no position like it in sports. It is the one position that controls virtually everything that happens for his team when he’s on the field. If you don’t have a quarterback, you don’t have a chance. Fortunately, that hasn’t been a concern all that often for the Texas Tech football program.

Take 2019 for example. For the final nine games of the year, the Red Raiders had to turn to a player in Jett Duffey who was essentially the third-string QB after fall camp and who might have been 4th-string had freshman Maverick…