BYU QB Riley Nelson Has Season Ending Shoulder Surgery

by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 21, 2010 3:07 PM PDT in Mountain West Football

Looks like Bronco Mendenhall is off the hook in having to choose a starting quarterback; junior quarterback Riley Nelson is having season ending shoulder surgery on his non throwing arm. Nelson suffered the injury against Florida State with the diagnosis coming out today which will require a four to five month rehab process.

This looks to be the end of Riley Nelson's career as a quarterback at BYU, because there is no way this circus will happen again next year. Nelson may be the backup or with his speed and athleticism move to safety to help out there next year for BYU.

This occurrence might be met with -- as George Costanza was described as when his fiance died -- restraint jubilance from BYU fans, because now Jake Heaps gets all of the playing time. There will be no more shuffling around quarterbacks, and now it is time to see if Heaps will live up to his lofty recruiting rankings he earned coming out of high school.

No, pressure.

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Aw damn but O well

Is Heaps the passer or dual threat?

Future Public Enemy of OBNUG.

by WolfpackNev on Sep 21, 2010 3:10 PM PDT reply actions

the passer

He was the number one rated QB from Rivals.

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by Jeremy Mauss on Sep 21, 2010 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions

Ugh hope he doesnt light up Nevada's secondary

Hopefully Dontay Moch will terrorize him in the back field.

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by WolfpackNev on Sep 21, 2010 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions

Makes the MWC a young QB's league for sure

Think TCU and SDSU are the only teams starting upper class man. Is that right? I dont’ count Tim Jefferson since he runs more then throws and its a matter of minutes before Omar Clayton tears up his knees again.

5 out of 9 seems like a lot to me.

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by bhsmarine on Sep 21, 2010 3:41 PM PDT reply actions

You might want to throw UNLV in the list of starting young QB's.

Caleb Herring came in at the end of the game and ran Hauck’s offense pretty well. It will be interesting to see if Clayton loses his job yet again.

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by rebelfan1 on Sep 21, 2010 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions

This is a blessing in disguise for BYU

Riley Nelson was nothing more than a stopgap, at least heaps can get some REAL experience now.

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by Ben Findley on Sep 21, 2010 4:05 PM PDT reply actions