Depth, competition shines for Texas Tech football

[Hawkeye]

LUBBOCK, Texas—With a newly-formatted spring game and big plays being made by old and new faces, Texas Tech used a game-type environment to get an early look at how it will build on last season's success.




But it wasn't the starting quarterback, Taylor Potts, that led his team to victory. Instead, quarterback Steven Sheffield - who Leach said has earned the backup quarterback spot - threw for 99 yards and a touchdown on 11-of-18 passing to lead the White team to a 19-7 win Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

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[JoeyTTU01]

Its not like Potts had a bad day going 20/27 211 Yds 1 TD. But Sheffield definitely put distance between himself and everyone else behind Potts as Seth Doege and Stefan Loucks did not not good at all, so much so that Garrett Riley a RS FR from Muleshoe played QB for both teams for most of the 4th Quarter. Loucks had already been removed from consideration for the starting job by Leach. Doege was the talk of camp last year but struggled in this year's spring game and probably is now the #3 behind Taylor Potts and Steven Sheffield.