{"id":439645,"date":"2026-08-21T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439645\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:43:05","slug":"all-settled-luke-weaver-to-start-at-quarterback-for-san-jose-state-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439645\/","title":{"rendered":"All settled: Luke Weaver to start at quarterback for San Jose State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose State\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/06\/luke-weaver-san-jose-state-quarterback-wide-receivers-robert-mcdaniel-daniel-rolovich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">quarterback competition<\/a> is settled a little more than a week before the team\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii transfer Luke Weaver will be behind center for the Spartans when they travel to Los Angeles to play USC on Aug. 29, the school confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel was the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/petethamel\/status\/2090096585140994125?s=46&amp;t=6Oskvg0UpZAJxl5PL4LYhA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">first to report<\/a> the news.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver was competing for the job with redshirt freshman Robert McDaniel and true freshman Daniel Rolovich.<\/p>\n<p>The senior went 2-0 as a starter and appeared in five games overall for Hawaii last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Manteca native threw for 294 yards and three touchdowns in a win over Sam Houston and 240 yards and two touchdowns to beat Portland State.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of his season came in a relief role as he came off the bench to throw the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/12\/24\/cal-hawaii-bowl-rainbow-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">winning touchdown pass<\/a> to beat Cal 35-31 in the Hawaii Bowl. Hawaii had trailed 21-0.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver has played in the Run-and-Shoot offense, which is similar to the Spread-and-Shred system that he\u2019ll run under San Jose State offensive coordinator Craig Stutzmann.<\/p>\n<p>Before going to Hawaii, he played at Modesto Junior College.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose State\u2019s quarterback competition is settled a little more than a week before the team\u2019s season opener.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,88,90,89,127],"class_list":["post-439645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-california","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}