Oklahoma’s season opener is now just two weeks away. Amidst the many, many question marks still surrounding the upcoming season, OU still has one big one at the top of its depth chart.
Lincoln Riley has yet to announce his starting quarterback for 2020, a sentence that likely seems all to familiar for OU fans. This will be Riley’s third straight season starting a fresh face under center, each decision seemingly taking longer than the last,
Of course, everything going on right now has only served to further complicate the process.
“I’ll say this: I think it’s been a little bit more difficult to look back and say, ‘Well, this has kind of typically been our drop dead date,’” Riley said in a zoom press conference last Wednesday. “And I do think that’s been when you’ve had a normal three-game, non-conference schedule, a normal camp, a normal spring. I mean, this situation’s so different that I’m trying not to look too much into the past and really look more at this situation right here.”
Fortunately for Riley, there’s not really a wrong choice. Both redshirt freshman Spencer Rattler and redshirt sophomore Tanner Mordecai have a lot to offer.
“It’s been very positive with those two guys,” Riley said. “Trying to weigh two things as we go through it. I think the first is just obviously how these guys are continuing to perform, just how they’re leading the groups, probably the more normal stuff, and then also trying to gauge how abnormal this entire process has been and the fact that, you know, you play one non-conference game and then you’ve got a bye week and then you’re into the conference schedule.”
Read our 2020 QB Preview for more.
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