“Joey Halzle will be coaching our quarterbacks,” Heupel said. “Joey and I have been together the last 13 years on the coaching side of it. He played for me at Oklahoma, was in a room with a Heisman Trophy winner in Sam Bradford. He’s been a part of high-level development of the quarterback position. Part of Landry Jones, who I think finished fourth in the history of college football in passing yards when he finished, the development of Drew Lock at Missouri, second-round draft pick. Look at what he’s done with Dillon Gabriel at UCF, who was leading the country in passing at one point this year.
“He understands the game, does a great job of teaching it, understands the fundamentals, understands the scheme and will do a great job of developing that position. I think that’s one of the most under coached positions in all of football. The ability of the coordinator or the guy that’s coaching that position to really understand footwork, eye training, body position to allow those guys not just to understand scheme, but to understand the position you got to be in to be successful and to be accurate with the football and to be decisive. He’ll do a great job there.”
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