Joey McGuire previews Texas Tech football spring game format
The Texas Tech football team will wrap up spring practice at 2 p.m. April 19 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Joey McGuire explains the situational drills.
Mitch Griffis’ grandparents made a long trip to see the Texas Tech football spring game. So the Red Raiders’ new quarterback who transferred from halfway across the country wasn’t going to sit out because he was sick.
Good thing. He gave himself and the whole family something to remember.
Griffis threw two touchdown passes — both showing arm talent into tight windows — to highlight the annual spring game at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders scored five touchdowns in the two-hour scrimmage, and the senior from Ashburn, Virginia, was the only player to have a hand in more than one.
“He’s tough,” Tech coach Joey McGuire said. “He probably threw up 20 times today before the game. We tested him today; didn’t have the flu. His grandparents were here. He’s like, ‘Coach, I’m going. They’re not going to drive all this way to not see me play.’ “
Price Morgan, with two defenders shadowing him, caught Griffis’ 14-yard throw into the end zone, outwrestling safety A.J. McCarty for the ball. Then Frenship graduate Leyton Stone caught a 24-yard TD, going up and making a juggling catch over safety Oliver Miles on a ball Griffis threw across his body.
Griffis threw for 1,957 yards and 19 touchdowns from 2020-23 at Wake Forest, nearly all of it in 2023. He transferred to Marshall, stepped away from football in June 2024 and then transferred to Tech in January. McGuire has portrayed him as fitting a specific need: a quarterback with some seasoning, content to be a backup but capable if pressed into duty.
“He’s a gamer, man,” McGuire said. “He moves well in the pocket. He runs better than what I thought he was going to when we first…
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