So I just want to develop myself into a better leader, a better person, and a better football player this offseason.”įor now and always, though, he’s Cam Miller, quarterback of a national champion. “I haven’t had a true offseason to really develop myself. “I feel like my best football is ahead of me,” said Miller. 21 and Saturday, there is finally a real break. Fargo, ND Quincy Patterson Remaining Focused On His Game Only Amid QB Battle The transfer out of Virginia Tech isnt comparing himself to any other QB vying for the starting job August 12, 2021. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if. Now, after NDSU had played 24 games between last Feb. Virginia Tech quarterback Quincy Patterson II has played in 13 games during the past three seasons. “I did what I had to when my team needed me.” “I just feel like I played some really good football and I didn’t turn the ball over much,” Miller said. He also rushed for 280 yards and four TDs. The Bison were a run-first team this season, but Miller had 14 TD passes to just three interceptions. The fans expect national championships year-in and year-out.” Because losing is really not an option at North Dakota State. “I felt like I had a lot of proving to do, especially to the fans, but to myself as well. “I just really took that job and ran with it,” Miller said. He proceeded to start the final eight games, four of them FCS playoff contests the Bison won by a combined score of 123-34. Miller threw fourth-quarter touchdown passes of 29 and 24 yards, and NDSU won, 27-20. Patterson had completed just 5 of 16 passes and was replaced by Miller in the third quarter with the Bison trailing, 20-13. Miller’s chance to regain the quarterback job came Oct. “But at the same time, I just used that as motivation to get better and prepare like I was the starter each and every week.” I remember conversations with my dad, just being really down on myself. “They announced Quincy was the starter, and I was pretty devastated for a little while. “I thought I was playing the best football I ever played during that time,” Miller said. The transfer was named the starter in late August. When fall camp opened, the quarterback job was open between Miller, Cole Payton, and Virginia tech transfer Quincy Patterson. After not getting to play in the spring as a transfer from Virginia Tech, Quincy Patterson is going to see plenty of the the field this fall as North Dakota State’s starting quarterback. They lost 24-20 in the quarterfinals to eventual-champ Sam Houston State last May. THE CHICAGO NATIVE TALKS WINNING THE STARTING JOB (KVRR/Nick Couzin) FARGO, N.D. Miller was down the depth chart entering that spring season, but was the starter for the Bison in the playoffs. Lance instead entered the 2021 NFL Draft as a junior. Lance was going to quarterback NDSU in the 2020 season, but the FCS pushed the season back to spring of 2021 because of COVID-19.
“I had no intentions of playing in my first two to three years,” Miller said Monday, back home in Solon to finish out winter break.
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