Lincoln Riley’s newest quarterback project has emerged.
On Tuesday, Riley announced that redshirt freshman Spencer Rattler will be taking over the reigns as the Sooners’ newest quarterback.
Rattler, a former five-star recruit out of Arizona, was one of Oklahoma’s highest rated recruits ever.
Despite his talent, his skillset differs from the past few quarterbacks Riley has coached.
“I think I always coach them different.” Riley said on Thursday. “I think you coach the guys that you have and every player that you have in there is going to have different strengths, weaknesses, experience levels. I have said this many times about this group, you kind of have two levels of experience. You have got on the field, game experience. Then you’ve got experience level within our system, running our plays. It’s kind of varied levels all over as you mention.”
Rattler beat out Tanner Mordecai for the starting spot. Riley mentioned earlier in the week that Mordecai unfortunately missed a majority of preseason camp.
Even on his current roster, Riley has differing skillsets among his quarterbacks. Rattler is a dual-threat QB, and Mordecai more on the pro-style side.
“I think guys learn differently. Guys need different things. Guys have different strengths and weaknesses. As far as expectations different, no.” Riley said. “These guys are more than capable of running this offense and playing the position we expect it to be played. I think they’re going to do some really good things. I think we’ve got good players around them. Our expectations for how they play and for how our offense plays has certainly not changed.”
The Sooners open their season with Missouri State on Sept. 12.
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