UTC quarterback Jacob Huesman removes his helmet between plays during a practice at Scrappy Moore Field in Chattanooga.Jacob Huesman looked up and away, like a philosopher pondering one of life’s big questions. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga redshirt freshman quarterback was evaluating his performance this season.
“If I had to give myself a grade, hmmm, I don’t know, probably just ‘C’ for average,” he said. “The record shows it. We’re 4-4 and that’s .500 – average.”
The Mocs (4-4, 3-2) head into Saturday’s game at Western Carolina (1-8, 0-7) needing a big finish to have a shot at sharing the Southern Conference title. That means they need their quarterback to keep doing what he’s been doing.
Huesman leads UTC in rushing with 597 yards and four touchdowns, including a 170-yard performance last week against now-No. 1 Georgia Southern. He’s completed 117 of 177 passes for 1,141 yards and 10 touchdowns, with just three interceptions. His completion percentage of .661 is the highest in the SoCon of anyone with more than 50 attempts.
“A-plus” was the grade UTC offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield gave Huesman, UTC’s first-team quarterback since the second week of the season, after Terrell Robinson quit the team and then returned.