With two new faces added to a Texas State quarterback room that lost both of its starters from last season, head coach and offensive play-caller Jake Spavital should be set at this position for the foreseeable future.

Check out below for a preview of the Bobcat quarterbacks for the 2022 season.

Who's Returning

• Ty Evans (redshirt sophomore; second year at Texas State)
• Tanner Prewit (redshirt sophomore; third year)

Even though he did not attempt a pass last season (he appeared in two games and took five snaps), Evans has marinated in the Spavital-led offense for over a calendar year now. A 6-foot-3, 210-pound right-hander, Evans came to Texas State from NC State during the offseason prior to the 2021 season.

In Evans' standout prep career at Palmer Ridge (Colo.) High School, where he posted a 34-5 record as a starting quarterback, completed 597-of-994 passes for 9,485 yards and 106 touchdowns, and rushed for 538 rushing yards and 20 rushing touchdowns on 131 carries en route to back-to-back CHSAA Class 3A state championships. He was an Elite 11 finalist in 2018, an honor bestowed upon some of the top high school quarterback prospects each year. Other finalists alongside the Colorado native in 2018: Spencer Rattler, Bo Nix, Graham Mertz, Cade McNamara, Sam Howell and others.

Prewit, who enrolled at Arizona State after concluding his prep career at Dripping Springs (TX) High School, has yet to appear in a game since arriving on campus in 2020.

Who's Departed

• Brady McBride
• Tyler Vitt
• D.J. Bolger

Losing McBride and Vitt means losing the two quarterbacks who have attempted all the passes for the Bobcats over the last two seasons. The two combined for more than 8,000 yards of total offense in their Texas State careers. Over the course of four years, Vitt, a San Antonio native, appeared in 31 games. In two seasons in San Marcos after transferring from Memphis, McBride, a Coppell (TX) High School product, appeared in 16 career games.
In two seasons as a Bobcat, McBride threw for 3,437 yards and 29 touchdowns, while also adding 217 yards and a touchdown on the ground. Over the course of his Texas State career, Vitt completed 413-of-686 passes for 4,483 yards and 30 touchdowns to go along with 697 rushing yards and three scores.

Who's New

• Layne Hatcher (transfer from Arkansas State)
• CJ Rogers (transfer from Baylor)

Layne Hatcher is an intra-Sun Belt transfer with 32 career games of experience at Arkansas State, including 16 starts, and two years of eligibility remaining. Hatcher, who put up a 41-1 career record in high school as a starting quarterback at Pulaski Academy (Ark.), began his collegiate career at Alabama in 2018 before joining the Red Wolves. In three seasons, the 6-foot, 210-pound right-handed quarterback threw for 7,427 yards and 65 touchdowns, both of which rank in the top four on the program's career list.

Rogers, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound right-handed signal caller, arrived in San Marcos from Baylor during the summer. After leading Argyle (TX) High School to a perfect 16-0 record and a state championship as a senior — his only season as a starting quarterback in high school — Rogers enrolled at Baylor but redshirted during the 2021 season and did not see any game action. To highlight his final prep football season, Rogers was named the Dallas Morning-News 4A Player of the Year after completing 65 percent of his passes for 3,420 yards and 48 passing touchdowns to go along with six rushing scores.

What to Watch For
No active student-athlete in the Texas State quarterback room has thrown a pass for head coach Jake Spavital. Linebacker Sione Tupou, who completed a nine-yard pass attempt in the Bobcats' win at Arkansas State to cap the 2021 season, and punter Seamus O'Kelly, on a pair of trick plays, are the only active players to have either attempted or completed a pass in a Bobcat uniform.

But that would be an injustice to overlook Hatcher's 845 career pass attempts and 1,659 snaps at the collegiate level as well as Evans' experience with the Texas State playbook for the last 15 months. Prewit, meanwhile, has been in the Texas State quarterback room since 2020.

Spavital told media earlier in preseason camp that he will not name a starting quarterback until the week before the Bobcats' season-opening game at Nevada on Saturday, Sept. 3. But whoever is given the keys to the offense heading to Reno will have the luxury of very experienced position groups around him with Javen Banks and Marcell Barbee out wide, Calvin Hill and Jahmyl Jeter in the backfield, and Dalton Cooper, Kyle Hergel and Russell Baker in the trenches.