SMU quarterback Garrett Gilbert is certainly one of seven Lake Travis players in Friday’s recreation between SMU and Texas Tech. …
Texas highschool powers turning out division one quarterbacks year after 12 months isn’t uncommon. But it is pretty rare when the last four from a faculty play one another in college.
That’s the case in Friday night time’s matchup of Texas Tech and SMU. Each team boasts two quarterbacks from Lake Travis High College in Austin, including the quarterbacks that may begin the sport.
For Texas Tech, that quarterback is freshman Baker Mayfield, who got here to Tech as a preferred stroll-on. He beat out Davis Webb, another freshman, to be the Purple Raiders’ starter after sophomore Michael Brewer, Tech’s different Lake Travis quarterback, was sidelined in preseason observe with a back damage.
In his junior season at Lake Travis, Mayfield replaced SMU redshirt freshman Collin Lagasse as beginning quarterback. Lagasse is splitting time between working again and broad receiver at SMU.
“Collin was a do-it-all man for us,” Lake Travis coach Hank Carter informed the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. “He’s a very robust, fast agile child. He threw the ball effectively, but we knew his strength was more in operating the ball. Baker really got here in when Collin bought harm the fourth play of the season. He went in and went off. Baker gained a state championship as a junior. He’s a mixture of Michael and Garrett. He’s not as big however has a robust arm and is a great competitor.”
Garrett is Garrett Gilbert, a senior who will start at quarterback for SMU. After signing with Texas out of high school, he is the quarterback who changed an injured Colt McCoy in the 2009 National Championship against Alabama. In reduction of McCoy as a true freshman, Gilbert threw four interceptions. (The four quarterbacks’ file at Lake Travis? ninety four-eight.)
After beginning in his sophomore season at Texas, Gilbert transferred following a shoulder injury in his junior season and acquired a medical redshirt. Last season in his first year because the Mustangs’ starter, he threw for 2,932 yards and 15 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.
And if that’s not loopy sufficient, there are additionally three other Lake Travis products within the sport for Texas Tech; punter Ryan Erxleben, kicker Kramer Fyfe and broad receiver Zach Austin.
Texas Tech-SMU matchup features the last four Lake Travis High School quarterbacks
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