Virginia Tech names Grant Wells starting off QB RB Malachi Thomas ‘week-to-week’

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Grant Wells has won a struggle between transfers to be Virginia Tech’s beginning quarterback. Head coach Brent Pry declared Wednesday night what experienced been assumed considering the fact that the end of spring observe: Wells, who transferred to Virginia Tech from Marshall in the wintertime, will be the Hokies’ commencing quarterback when they open up the season Sept. 2 at Outdated Dominion. He beat out South Carolina transfer Jason Brown.

Pry also stated that Malachi Thomas, the favored to start off at running again, is “week-to-week” with an injury. Thomas rushed 93 occasions for 440 yards and three touchdowns as a freshman past year.

Wells, a redshirt junior from Charleston, West Virginia, commenced two seasons at Marshall, throwing for 5,623 yards and 34 touchdowns with 23 interceptions and earning to start with-crew All-Conference United states of america honors as a freshman in 2020. He threw for 3,532 yards previous year as a sophomore, and his common of 270.9 passing yards per game ranks fifth of the ACC’s returning quarterbacks this year. He has eight 300-garden passing video games in his occupation.

The 6-foot-2, 208-pounder was the frontrunner for the career coming out of spring ball, which he capped with an 11-for-21 for 178-property effort in the spring match, with two long touchdowns to Kaleb Smith.

“I feel he had a phenomenal spring,” quarterbacks coach Brad Glenn mentioned last week at media working day. “He’s had a phenomenal early going in camp.”

Brown, a redshirt senior from Fredericksburg who joined the Hokies from South Carolina following formerly playing for FCS Saint Francis (Pa.), will be Wells’ backup. He started final calendar year as the Gamecocks’ third-crew quarterback but started off the ultimate four video games of the regular year, guiding them to wins in opposition to Auburn and Florida and finishing with 721 passing yards, 8 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.

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