Vanderbilt adds four-star QB Shurmur, best QB prospect in school history
By Ethan Levine
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The Vanderbilt Commodores, on the heels of a discouraging fall from consecutive nine-win seasons to a 3-9 campaign in 2014, made history on National Signing Day in adding four-star quarterback prospect Kyle Shurmur.
The Glenside, Pa., native is the highest-rated quarterback signee in school history, and he will enter a program with a great deal of uncertainty at the position, giving four different signal callers a start under center last season.
Please welcome QB Kyle Shurmur – the highest rated QB to ever sign with the 'Dores! http://t.co/nvo8PwTTb9 #VUNSD pic.twitter.com/lnJnpTZCZj
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) February 4, 2015
Three of those quarterbacks will return to compete with Shurmur for the starting job in 2015 — sophomores Johnny McCrary and Wade Freebeck, and injury-riddled junior Patton Robinette.
A former newspaper reporter who has roamed the southeastern United States for years covering football and eating way too many barbecue ribs, if there is such a thing.
