Chris Petersen took his place in the spotlight Thursday for the annual Pac-12 Media Day in Los Angeles. Flanked by senior running back Deontae Cooper and senior linebacker Travis Feeney, Petersen was immediately asked the obvious question: Who is going to line up behind center when the Huskies take the field against Boise State?

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As we reported last week, we were hearing rumblings that Jake Browning would be in competition this fall and that a redshirt hadn’t been decided yet. Today Petersen confirmed such when he was asked about Browning, “Jake is definitely in the mix”, Petersen said, “Absolutely”.

Questions were brought up after ESPN reported earlier this week that Petersen had talked about the challenges of trying to rep three quarterbacks (meaning, three quarterbacks all getting reps with the one’s, two’s and three’s during practice), so some read into that that this mean that Browning was going to be redshirted and work more with the scout team, as true freshmen quarterbacks usually do, but Browning enrolled winter quarter and spent all spring working out with the team on the field.

Yes, that was an impossibly long sentence, but this is a complicated issue that has be explained as such.

Now it’s becoming clearer as to what three quarterbacks Petersen was referring to; Jeff Lindquist, KJ Carta-Samuels, and Browning, as he suggested that he would like to redshirt juco transfer, Anthony Rodriguez.

As for the other three, Petersen said “They all three got really good reps in spring football -- and they’re all three going to get really good reps in fall camp”.

Petersen went on to let the media know that there’s nothing mysterious going on at this point, “It always seems like the media kind of thinks we play our cards close to the vest and we kind of know who the starter might be, but we really don’t know.. I wish we did.”

Interesting to note that since Petersen took the reins at Washington, two quarterbacks from the previous staff have departed. Cyler Miles left football due to a hip problem, and Troy Williams left the program simply because of the issue of future playing time. The only Sarkisian-era quarterback left on the roster is Lindquist, who is the quintessential team player. Lindquist had an excellent spring, but it still wasn't enough to secure the starting job.

This is definitely the top story heading into fall camp and as we said in an earlier article today, it may be a mystery right up until game week.



