Auburn transportation backmost Jackson Arnold volition commencement implicit Alex Orji successful UNLV’s play opener againt Memphis connected Saturday astatine Allegiant Stadium, manager Dan Mullen said Thursday.
“We got each the scripting done, which I said, Jackson Arnold volition beryllium successful for the archetypal play of the game,” Mullen said connected the “Dan Mullen Radio Show.”
“Alex is going to play. I wouldn’t beryllium shocked if Alex is successful (the game) beauteous quick.
“I deliberation we person 2 starting quarterbacks, and I deliberation that is simply a big, large positive for america arsenic the play goes on.”
Mullen had antecedently declined to sanction a starter, including earlier this week, and had said passim autumn campy that some Arnold and Orji would play successful UNLV’s archetypal crippled of the season.
Arnold spent his archetypal 2 collegiate seasons astatine Oklahoma earlier transferring to Auburn for the 2025 season. Across 27 vocation appearances and 17 starts, Arnold, a erstwhile five-star prospect, has completed 63 percent of his passes for 3,263 yards.
A erstwhile Gatorade Player of the Year and Manning Award winner, Arnold was rated arsenic the No. 4 backmost successful the state and the No. 8 wide enlistee successful the 2023 people coming retired of precocious school.
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