There’s a real shot in place for West Virginia football to have the best year under Dana Holgorsen, largely because of star quarterback Will Grier.
West Virginia football has a lot on the line in 2018, including the possibility of an appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game. All the hype building around the Mountaineers right now resulted because of the return of former transfer quarterback Will Grier.
An injury near the end of the 2017 regular season, against the Texas Longhorns, derailed a lot of the momentum the Mountaineers built up through the beginning of the Big 12 slate. Backup quarterback Chris Chugunov was just not anywhere close to the realm of talent and passing ability that Grier brings to the West Virginia offense.
The receiving corps that the Mountaineers bring back in 2018 also builds a lot of excitement as to how good this team can really be. They really only lose the little brother of a West Virginia legend in Kevin White, Ka’Raun White.
A loss of starting running back Justin Crawford could also hurt the production of the West Virginia offense, but it shouldn’t affect anything too much. The Mountaineers still bring back the backup running back from 2017, Kennedy McKoy. He’ll figure to be an integral part of the offensive plan in 2018.
You’ll find West Virginia ranked as high as the top 15, in some way too early top 25 rankings for the 2018 college football season. It’s hard to deny the pure amount of talent returning along the offensive side of the ball in Morgantown this year.
The ultimate hope for Grier is not just to win the Big 12, and potentially keep West Virginia as a dark horse College Football Playoff contender, but also figure into the thick of the Heisman race. Here are five reasons why West Virginia Mountaineers rising junior quarterback Will Grier can win the Heisman Trophy in 2018.