UConn football names new starting quarterback ahead of Saturday’s season opener

Nick Evers will be under center as the starting quarterback when UConn football begins its season Saturday at Maryland.

Evers, who transferred in from Wisconsin this spring, was announced as starter after practice Tuesday by head coach Jim Mora, who didn’t initially have the announcement planned. After the question was asked early in his press conference, Mora quipped that he would wait for Maryland coach Mike Locksley to announce his quarterback first.

But Evers and the team already had already been informed that after a summer of competition, he won the job.

“Nick’s our starter, and we’re going to throw all our support behind him and we’re gonna put him in a position to win,” Mora said. “And we know that Joe (Fagnano) and Tucker (McDonald) and Cole (Welliver) are ready to go if there is a reason to.”

It was the third consecutive year UConn held a competition for its starting quarterback as Mora and staff continue to improve talent across the board. Evers was brought in to compete, and for most of camp, it felt as though it was his job to lose.

“(I knew he’d be the starter) probably a couple of weeks ago,” Mora said. “In this day and age, when you go out into the portal, when you have uncertainty in your quarterback room or any room on your team (…) you go out in the portal and you find a guy that you think has got talent, you don’t bring a guy in and help him get NIL opportunities unless you’re pretty convinced he’s going to be the guy. That’s the way this thing works nowadays.

“Not to disparage any of the other quarterbacks, but when you go get Nick Evers, you’re hoping that he becomes the guy. You’re cheering for them all, you’re pushing them all and you’re coaching the heck out of them all and you’re loving them all up, but you’re hoping deep down that you made the…

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Publish date : 2024-08-27 16:24:00

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