Shannon Dawson reveals Miami's plan at QB behind Jacurri Brown for bowl game

Between the injury to Emory Williams and the transfer of Tyler Van Dyke, Miami has needed to turn to Jacurri Brown at quarterback for its bowl game. That’s a move that Hurricanes offensive coordinator Shannon Dawson is currently working on to go as smoothly as possible.

One of the major challenges, however, is going to be finding a backup quarterback for Brown, who is already Miami’s third quarterback.

“You want to be backup quarterback?” Shannon Dawson joked with the reporter who asked about the backup.

“We’ll have a plan for a few guys to be honest with you. I mean, we’re gonna have some emergency plans and Jayden George is a guy that’s been here for a while and he’s taken a lot of reps as far as what we do in practice and how we spread everybody out, but we’re gonna have some emergency plans too.”

George is a fifth-year senior. He previously played for Alabama and Bowling Green. However, his actual game experience is very limited. Along with George, Miami lists Joe Borchers, Riply Luna, and Aristides Angelo on its roster. All of those quarterbacks are freshmen.

Jacurri Brown, for his part, is a sophomore who hasn’t seen the field this season. However, he did play in eight games as a freshman. In eight games, he completed 60 percent of passes for 230 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 221 yards.

Miami will play Rutgers in the Pinstripe Bowl on December 28th.

Shannon Dawson addresses if Miami’s gameplan will change with Jacurri Brown at QB

With Jacurri Brown in at quarterback, one thing Shannon Dawson knows he’s going to need to do is tailor the offense to his strengths.

“I try to do things that the quarterback that’s playing is good at, obviously. It’s no different when other people are playing. You go through the process of putting the game plan together and there are some things that you try out, rep, and don’t make the cut,” Dawson said.

“But right now the stuff that we’re working on and the stuff that we’re repping in practice, he’s really doing an excellent job, and everything looks very smooth. So, just more of our offense is our offense, obviously, but it’s going to get tilted to who is playing and you try to do things that their strengths are. There’s obviously things we’ll do with him that we won’t do with other people, but for the most part, 80 to 90 percent of what we do is what we do and that’s true with most offenses out there I would say.”