QB Johnny Stanton back in groove as UNLV opens vs. Jackson State

Johnny Stanton’s college football career hasn’t turned out the way he expected. But the UNLV junior quarterback still has plenty of time to author a success story.

A junior college transfer who began his career at Nebraska, Stanton will begin writing a new chapter Thursday night, when he’ll make his first career Division I start for the Rebels in their 7 p.m. season opener against Jackson State at Sam Boyd Stadium.

It’s not exactly what Stanton envisioned four years ago, when he entered his senior year at Santa Margarita High School in California with scholarship offers from Oregon, Wisconsin and Nebraska. He was fresh off competing in Nike’s Elite 11 prep quarterback camp with the likes of…