PINE BLUFF, Arkansas -- If there was one thing learned from Arkansas-Pine Bluff’s football media day on Saturday, it was that the quarterback race will come down to the final week, this week.
Picking a starter for the opening game against South Carolina State University may even be a game-time decision when UAPB plays its first contest of the season on Sunday in Orlando, Florida at 3:30 p.m., in front of a nationwide ESPN television crowd.
That game, the MEAC/SWAC Challenge, will be the first one since 2010 that Ben Anderson did not enter the week at the top of the UAPB depth chart. The four-year starter wrapped up his stellar four-year career last fall, and left Monte Coleman and his staff a large hole to attempt to fill.
Five quarterbacks have auditioned this fall for the role. Marcus Terrell and Nolan Sorensen have pulled away a bit from the others. Brandon Duncan is still battling to make it a true three-man competition. Freshmen LaEarl Patterson, from Memphis, and Roger Totten II, have gotten their share of the reps, but haven’t done enough to really get into the conversation.
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