As I was
leaving the Bourger Varsity Football House today, I glanced into the weight
room and spotted Josh Davis. Josh saw me and I motioned to him.
When he opened
the door, I asked, ‘So, are you going to play quarterback this spring?”
I was half
kidding, but with the quarterback situation that faces the Leopards’ football
team at this time, I thought I’d ask the rising senior, who came to Lafayette
from San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and sat behind Drew Reed and Blake Searfoss
for a couple of years before switching over to wide receiver.
Leopards coach
Frank Tavani had always said what a good athlete Davis was, but for whatever
reason, that athleticism never translated into playing time for the 6-2,
200-pound economics major.
Josh smiled on
Wednesday and said, “I am; I threw for the first time on Monday. It felt good.
I’m going to give it a shot.”
Austin McCrum’s
spring-practice competition is getting more intense. Neither rising junior Mike
Lewis nor rising sophomore Blake Meyer, the other two quarterbacks on the
Lafayette roster, figures to be a serious threat to Austin McCrum, the 6-4,
220-pound rising sophomore from Maine who most people think will be the Lafayette QB when
the 2016 season opens at Monmouth in September.
