Mark Stoops is opening up game week with a little bit of news for Kentucky football fans. Zach Calzada will be the Wildcats’ starting quarterback, reports Pete Thamel. Calzada gets the nod ahead of his seventh and final season of college football. He won the job after battling it out with Cutter Boley. Even though […]
Mark Stoops is opening up game week with a little bit of news for Kentucky football fans. Zach Calzada will be the Wildcats’ starting quarterback, reports Pete Thamel.
Calzada gets the nod ahead of his seventh and final season of college football. He won the job after battling it out with Cutter Boley. Even though it felt inevitable that Calzada would ultimately be “the guy,” Boley made things interesting by showing drastic improvement over the summer.
“We’re constantly evaluating these guys and their progression,” offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan said last week. “Cutter’s doing a lot of really good things. To see where he’s come from last year to this year, with his mental approach to how calm he is out there, he is pushing the needle on this thing in a big way. Obviously Zach (Calzada) is doing a really good job as well.
“We’re very fortunate to have both these guys here and that’s the reality of the situation.”
In 2024, Calzada was named Southland Conference Player of the Year. He completed 65% of his passes for 3,791 yards (No. 5 in FCS), 35 touchdowns (No. 2 in FCS), and 9 interceptions. He also had 540 non-sack rushing yards and five touchdowns. The Cardinals advanced to the FCS Quarterfinals for the second time in school history, falling 55-14 at South Dakota State. Calzada tallied over 6,000 passing yards and 64 total touchdowns during his two-year run in San Antonio.
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