{"id":4458,"date":"2025-07-18T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4458\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:30:08","slug":"steve-sarkisian-says-texas-has-no-backup-quarterback-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4458\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sarkisian says Texas has no backup quarterback yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Probably the most surprising thing I heard regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas<\/a> at SEC Media Days this week was coach <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Coach\/steve-sarkisian-764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steve Sarkisian<\/a> telling Horns247 the Longhorns don&#8217;t have a clear-cut No. 2 quarterback &#8211; yet.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Sarkisian if redshirt freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/trey-owens-46117790\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trey Owens<\/a> had established himself as the backup QB behind starter <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/arch-manning-46080533\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arch Manning<\/a>, Sarkisian said, &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a backup quarterback yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The competition to be the Longhorns&#8217; No. 2 quarterback between Owens, early enrollee freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/247Sports.com\/Player\/Karle-Lacey-Jr-46136240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Karle Lacey<\/a>, who goes by KJ, and <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/troy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Troy<\/a> senior transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/matthew-caldwell-46110705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Caldwell<\/a>, who arrived in Austin in June, will be settled in training camp, Sarkisian said.<\/p>\n<p>Only\u00a0once in the last 14 years (2019) has Texas been able to make it through a season without needing to play the backup quarterback due to performance or injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Probably the most surprising thing I heard regarding Texas at SEC Media Days this week was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[49,48,551,546,559,527,525,523,526,524,82],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaaf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-college","tag-college-football","tag-collegefootball","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaaf","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}