{"id":130298,"date":"2025-09-09T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130298\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:33:08","slug":"sources-colorado-expected-to-start-ryan-staub-at-qb-vs-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130298\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources &#8212; Colorado expected to start Ryan Staub at QB vs. Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/38\/colorado-buffaloes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado<\/a> is expected to start <a data-player-guid=\"68b792bf-f79c-3004-9570-c6e6a5b5e615\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4917093\/ryan-staub\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Staub<\/a> at quarterback for the game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/248\/houston-cougars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston<\/a> on Friday night, per ESPN sources. He entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/48\/delaware-blue-hens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Delawar<\/a>e game on Saturday as the third-string quarterback and shined, completing 7 of 10 passes for 157 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Staub was spotted working with the first-team in practice on Monday, and the staff has made clear that Staub will start this week.<\/p>\n<p>Staub started one game for Colorado in 2023. Deion Sanders said in the Delaware postgame &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m not lost for direction&#8221; &#8211; when asked about the future at quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>He gets the nod over veteran transfer <a data-player-guid=\"a76dbb49-6c92-3abe-b09c-bdaeab4c6bb5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/4432803\/kaidon-salter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaidon Salter<\/a> and highly-regarded freshman <a data-player-guid=\"56eb7f52-ad34-3a77-a754-944860509204\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/player\/_\/id\/5159016\/julian-lewis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Lewis<\/a>, who both played against Delaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado is expected to start Ryan Staub at quarterback for the game at Houston on Friday night, per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-130298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}