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Austin Novosad turning heads in QB competition for Oregon football
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Coming into spring camp and eventually this fall for the 2025 college football season, it's been, fairly or unfairly, assumed by many fans that Dante Moore will be the starting quarterback for the Oregon Ducks .
But redshirt sophomore Austin Novosad didn't come to Oregon to just hold a clipboard and watch from the sideline. Novosad wants to play and he's doing everything he can to make sure he's does just that.
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His efforts and development on and off the field haven't gone unnoticed by head coach Dan Lanning or the coaching staff.
"I think the guy's just a winner. I mean, he has become really comfortable in our system," Lanning said. "He understands it, you know. And I think that Coach Stein and the offensive staff do a good job of continuing to push that, but he's just really level-headed."
Novosad has been in the system for almost three years and he's seen some of he very best do it in Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel .
"I think he's got to see some great quarterbacks in front with Dillon and Bo, and that experience of seeing how those guys operate, day in and day out, and what he can be," Lanning said." He's a guy that can make every throw. He's a good decision maker and really a leader of our team."
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The 6-foot-3, 205-pound signal caller from Dripping Springs, Texas, is self-aware and knows how much he's grown and developed since the first day he stepped on campus.
"I would say just my leadership and execution of like a faster paced offense coming here, we have a lot of checks, a lot of different schemes, play calls," said Novosad, "and then now being able to, kind of NFL style, being able to take a play call from Coach Stein and then relay it to the whole huddle and executed it at a high level has been kind of my biggest area of growth."
Even the receivers, such as Gary Bryant, Jr., has seen how much Novosad has improved. Bryant had to sit on the sidelines last season due to injuries, so he was able to spend more time with Novosad more than usual. According to Bryant, Novosad's leadership skills have improved a lot. And his deep ball isn't too shabby either.
"I love Austin. I've been getting a lot of a lot of reps with him. He's a deep ball thrower. Every deep ball is right there on the money. He's been a lot more vocal this year, knowing what to do, the plays in and out, getting guys linked up, and I think they've been doing a pretty good job of letting all the quarterbacks compete."
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In the end, that's all Novosad asks for. A chance to compete and ultimately win.
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