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 McIvor not broken his foot in the second fall scrimmage.