Georgia Tech OC Buster Faulkner on quarterback battle: "We are in no hurry to announce it"

Georgia Tech is in the midst of an important quarterback battle in fall camp

Author:
Jackson Caudell
Publish date:
Aug 2, 2023 5:30 PM EDT

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Day two of fall camp for Georgia Tech Football wrapped up on Tuesday afternoon and the Yellow Jackets continue their work towards the 2023 season opener against Louisville. One of the headlines of fall camp for Georgia Tech is their ongoing quarterback battle between Zach Pyron and Texas A&M transfer Haynes King.

After practice on Tuesday, offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner spoke with the media and not surprisingly, he was asked about the ongoing battle between the quarterbacks and Faulkner went into detail about what he is looking for when picking a starting quarterback:

"First of all, he has to be the toughest guy in the building. In this day and age with the media and everything else, you have a lot to handle. Tough, a great leader... the beautiful thing about Coach (Chris) Weinke and I, we see it the same way. We did not know each other seven months ago and then we talked about quarterbacks and it was spot on, so we are aligned as far as that goes.

As far as the race, we are going to have all three guys getting reps, all three are getting an opportunity to play and whoever come out on top, you guys will know when we know or maybe even the first play of the game, but we are in no hurry to announce it, that is for sure."

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What Faulkner said echoed what Key had to say yesterday after practice:

"With the quarterback situation, we have a great battle between three guys that have college experience, college game experience, big-time game experience. We are as fortunate as any team in the country in terms of the depth we have at that position and right now it is a lot of installation and a lot of routes on air, those kinds of things, getting timing down.

Like I have said before, it is different when you have the helmets on and the cleats as opposed in the summer and doing 7-on-7's. Every day is an evaluation of those guys, how they do in team periods, how they do off the field, how they transition from one play to the other. We have a good thing to have right now and that is experience and that is probably the same answer that I am going to give for the next three weeks. Don't plan on an announcement coming anytime soon"

This battle is likely going to extend throughout camp and might not be decided right until game week against Louisville.

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