BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech head football coach Justin Fuente and his staff have seen enough in the battle for the starting quarterback position, as Fuente on Monday tabbed Josh Jackson to be the starter for the Hokies’ season opener against West Virginia on Sept. 3 at FedExField.
Jackson, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound redshirt freshman from Ann Arbor, Michigan, beat out junior-college transfer AJ Bush and freshman Hendon Hooker, who enrolled in January, for the job. Jackson was in contention for the starting job last season – the one that went to Jerod Evans a little more than a week before the Hokies’ 2016 opener against Liberty.