Just wanted to pass along some words from Florida coach Urban Meyer on his newest quarterback signee: Wethersfield High’s Tyler Murphy.
“We feel like Jordan Reed is going to move to tight end and with that, we wanted to look for a dual position player and found that in Tyler Murphy. You watch his highlight film and he’s a freakish athlete with the ball in his hands and he can throw, so that’s how it happened,” Meyer said during a press conference Wednesday.
“We made a decision to make a run at some quarterbacks when we made the decision regarding Jordan Reed,” Meyer added. “Coach (Steve) Addazio actually went to school with Tyler’s father and there was a bit of a relationship there. He knew the high school coach very well, but I didn’t know any of that. We were sitting around watching tapes of about 15 quarterbacks one after another and all of a sudden we got a feel for him as a player. I want to say that was two or three weeks ago.”
UConn recruited Murphy as a defensive back (and it seems Meyer is considering other positions for Murphy, too by calling him a “dual position” player) but not as QB.
- Neill
