Stanford’s Shaw: QB duel may stretch into regular season
Stanford’s Shaw: QB duel may stretch into regular season
LOS ANGELES — Stanford’s quarterback competition may extend into the regular season, head coach David Shaw said Friday.
The Cardinal open at home against Kansas State on Sept. 2, so it’s possible that both redshirt sophomore Keller Chryst and redshirt junior Ryan Burns will play in that game.
[...] Chryst and Burns appear evenly matched going into training camp, which starts Aug. 8.
“Both guys are tall, both are athletic, and both have strong arms with great releases,” Shaw said at the Pac-12 media days.
The duel apparently will be decided by what goes on in the players’ brains rather than by how strongly or accurately they throw, he indicated.
The foremost among those “other players,” of course, is 2015 Heisman Trophy runner-up Christian McCaffrey, who gained an NCAA-record 3,864 all-purpose yards last year.
McCaffrey, who rushed for a school-record 2,019 yards, is “a little bit wiser,” Shaw said.
The Irish held McCaffrey under 100 yards rushing, but by concentrating on him, they allowed Hogan to throw four touchdown passes and Devon Cajuste to make several huge catches.
The Cardinal won 38-36 on Conrad Ukropina’s 45-yard field goal as time expired.