The folks in Vegas aren’t fooled by the strong possibility that Virginia Tech is going to have to go with its third-string freshman quarterback.
Vegas still has the Hokies a seven-point favorite in the regular-season finale with UVA on Saturday.
Note: they don’t have all those fancy buildings out there in the desert because they get things wrong.
OK, to the football part of this: it’s on the borderline of being dire.
“I don’t have the answer to that right now,” Tech coach Brent Pry said on Tuesday, addressing the status of his top two QBs, Kyron Drones and Collin Schlee. “They’re both questionable. I’d say Schlee is a little further along, but I wish I felt better about it today.”
Drones hasn’t played since the Hokies’ 24-14 loss to Clemson on Nov. 9, and Schlee was knocked out of the 31-28 loss to Duke last week with an apparent head injury.
That forced Pry to go to freshman Pop Watson, who, considering, did a decent job – 12-of-25 passing, 146 yards, through he was sacked eight times.
Watson showed some, ahem, pop, on the ground – gaining 50 yards on his nine rushing attempts, 30 of those yards coming on five scrambles.
Watson will be getting the bulk of the first-team reps at QB, with Drones and Schlee both “limited,” according to Pry.
“He needs it. He’ll benefit from it. Collin and Kyron have had a ton of reps all year. Obviously, Kyron for two years. So, Pop getting these significant snaps with the starting group is going to help him. He repped last week a bunch with the second group. It’ll be good to get him this work,” Pry said.
Another freshman, Davi Belfort, will be getting reps with the first- and second-team units.
“He’s getting some work,” Pry said. “Just like in that game Saturday night, he was one play away from having to lead the offense. Right now, we have four quarterbacks we are trying to get ready to play.”
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