Published by : Emmanuele Paul
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or went without technology for the last several months, you might’ve heard by now that the Nevada Wolf Pack football team has underwent serious changes. Head coach Jay Norvell departed to in-conference foe Colorado State nine days after beating the Rams by 42 points in Fort Collins, Colo. Former long time Nevada assistant Ken Wilson, who most recently had assistant coaching stints at Oregon and Washington State, took over as the head man and will begin an entirely new era of Wolf Pack football.

There will be a ton of new faces on the Nevada sideline this season. The programs returns the lowest production of any team in the nation while welcoming in an entirely new coaching staff, save for running backs coach Vai Taua. With all of the team’s question marks, I devised four key questions that I have heading into the spring and the 2022 season. Let’s dive right into it!

1. Who starts at quarterback?

Given it’s oftentimes the most important and looked-at position on the field, perhaps the biggest question heading into the offseason is: Who will be starting at quarterback?

Nevada hasn’t had to ask that question heading into each of the last two seasons with Carson Strong at the helm. Having won back-to-back Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year awards while combining to throw 9,368 yards, 74 touchdowns to 19 interceptions over three seasons with the Wolf Pack, Strong forgoed his final year of eligbility to enter the 2022 NFL Draft.

Nevada’s 6-foot-9 gun slinger Nate Cox is the top returning quarterback from a year ago. Cox has thrown only 45 passes at the Division-I level — completing 60 percent of such attempts for 289 yards, two touchdowns and one interception — while the other returnees Jake Barlage, Jonah Chong and Drew Scolari haven’t. Nevada also brought in Oklahoma State transfer Shane Illingworth along with freshman A.J. Bianco from Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Cox should…

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