Arizona Football News: It was announced this morning that Arizona quarterback Anu Solomon will NOT start, Jerrard Randall will start for the Wildcats in the Duel in the Desert!

You read that correctly, just this morning according to ESPN’s Brett McMurphy, Arizona football‘s starting quarterback Anu Solomon started out as day-to-day in the beginning of the week and now is listed as out.

It’s a hard pill to swallow for the team and Wildcats fans. The saving grace is that Jerrard Randall has had a lot of in-game practice this season and helped pull off a double overtime win against a No. 10 team last weekend. That helmet-to-helmet hit that wasn’t called or reviewed, took out the Wildcats quarterback.

Arizona QB Anu Solomon (concussion) will not play today vs. Arizona State, source told @ESPN. Jerrard Randall will start for the Wildcats — Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) November 21, 2015

Anu has thrown for a total of 2,326 yards this season, completing 192 of 305 passes, he has a QB Rating of 143.9.

Passing Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate *2014 Arizona Pac-12 FR QB 14 313 540 58.0 3793 7.0 7.3 28 9 130.7 2015 Arizona Pac-12 SO QB 10 192 305 63.0 2326 7.6 8.2 18 4 143.9 Career Arizona 505 845 59.8 6119 7.2 7.6 46 13 135.5 View Original Table

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Jerrard Randall has thrown for a total of 483 yards this season, completing 43 of 82 passes, he has a QB rating of 114.7. Randall can pull this off, especially with his run game.

Passing Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate *2014 Arizona Pac-12 JR QB 4 0 3 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0.0 2015 Arizona Pac-12 SR QB 10 43 82 52.4 483 5.9 5.5 5 3 114.7 Career Arizona 43 85 50.6 483 5.7 5.3 5 3 110.7 View Original Table

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Randall has had an impressive season rushing, scoring five touchdowns this season, he has rushed for 680 yards!

Rushing Receiving Scrimmage Year School Conf Class Pos G Att Yds Avg TD Rec Yds Avg TD Plays Yds Avg TD *2014 Arizona Pac-12 JR QB 4 15 104 6.9 1 0 0 0 15 104 6.9 1 2015 Arizona Pac-12 SR QB 10 74 680 9.2 5 0 0 0 74 680 9.2 5 Career Arizona 89 784 8.8 6 0 0 0 89 784 8.8 6 View Original Table

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Randall’s backup will be Brandon Dawkins, Brandon has not played much but has shown he can score and we are sure he is ready to do his part. Both quarterbacks have been ready all year.

Dawkins stats are included below:

Passing Year School Conf Class Pos G Cmp Att Pct Yds Y/A AY/A TD Int Rate 2015 Arizona Pac-12 FR QB 4 4 8 50.0 33 4.1 4.1 0 0 84.7 Career Arizona 4 8 50.0 33 4.1 4.1 0 0 84.7 View Original Table

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The Wildcats odd’s going into the game today were +6, and that may change, but what won’t change is that the Wildcats have beat the odds before. They will bring out their hard edge mentality, and you never know what can happen in a game especially in the Pac-12.

Remember what Coach Rich Rodriguez has been saying, Randall is always ready to compete, ‘ready’ being the operative word.

GO CATS! BEARDOWN!