Tyler Shough

Tyler Shough (/ʃʌk/ SHUCK; born September 28, 1999) is an American football quarterback for the Oregon Ducks.

Tyler Shough
Oregon Ducks – No. 12
PositionQuarterback
Class
Redshirt
Sophomore
Career history
College
Bowl games
High schoolHamilton
(Chandler, Arizona)
Personal information
Born: (1999-09-28) September 28, 1999
Height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Weight219 lb (99 kg)

Early life

Shough is a native of Chandler, Arizona and Glenn and Dana Shough's 4th of 5 children. Shough's parents, met as students at Arizona State University. Dana Shough would later attend Northern Arizona University for a Master of Education Masters of Education. His father Glenn is a retired police officer, currently teaching criminal justice with driver’s education, and his mother Dana is a retired educator.[1]

Dana Shough grew up in Springfield, Oregon with her father Don Denley helped construct the University of Oregon's Autzen Stadium where Shough would play his collegiate career years later. In 2009, Dana Shough was diagnosed with stage-4 metastatic breast cancer, when Shough was 6 year.[2] A 10 cm tumor was removed requiring a double mastectomy. She participated in the clinical trials of Herceptin with chemotherapy resulting in full remission.[1][3][4]

His elder sisters attended Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona where Shough and his younger brother Brady would play in the football program. According to the family, Tyler was friends with future Major League Baseball player Cody Bellinger while they were students at Hamilton.[5]

High school career

Shough would become the starting varsity quarterback as a junior at the high profile Hamilton High School football program starting the 2016 season. His performance garnered an honorable mention in Arizona's 6A Premier League,[6][7] listed in the 6th toughest football regions in the nation.[8] The team ended their season in the 6A quarterfinals with a 7–5 record, the worst in school history until 2018's dismal 3-7 performance.

As a senior, Shough guided Hamilton through a tremulous 2017 season with allegations of hazing became public resulting in the conviction of 3 players and the permeant reassignment of 3 administrators, including head coach Steve Belles, to Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) offices.[9] Shough was not implicated in the hazing scandal, instead took a leadership role by having players only meetings praised by interim head coach Dick Baniszewski.[10] He led the team to a 8–4 record making it to the 6A state quarterfinals earning himself a first-team 6A Premier League and all-CUSD awards.[11][12] He would also be selected as an Semper Fidelis All-American, from the US Marine Corps.[4] Hamilton would have an overall 15–9 record with Shough as a starter setting school records with the most losses, completions, attempts, yards, and touchdowns in the school's 20 year history.

Varsity Career Statistics[13]
Passing Rushing
Year G GS C Att Yrd C% Avg Y/G TD Int Lng QB Car Yrd Y/G Lng TD
2016 12 12 142 228 2079 .623 14.6 173.3 27 9 64 115.0 57 102 8.5 41 2
2017 12 12 176 282 3071 .624 17.4 255.9 30 5 94 127.5 46 101 2.2 8.4 1
Total 24 24 318 510 5150 .624 16.2 214.6 57 14 94 121.9 103 203 8.5 41 3

Shough was a highly sought after player being a consensus 4-star pro-style quarterback by both Scout and 247Sports. Scout would rank him 16th best at quarterback and 183rd best player overall nationwide.[14] Multiple athletic scholarships were offered from Alabama, California, Georgia, Florida State, Michigan, South Carolina, and Indiana.[15] After an initial verbal commit to North Carolina in June 2017 later committing to Oregon,[16] Shough would sign an early letter of intent to Oregon in December 2018.[17][18]

College career

Shough appeared in three games as a true freshman, playing eighteen snaps before redshirting the rest of the season.[19][20] As a redshirt freshman, Shough served as the Ducks backup quarterback during the 2019 season behind Justin Herbert[21] finishing the season with 144 yards and three touchdowns in eight games played off the bench.[22][23]

Passing Rushing
Year G GS C Att Yrd C% Avg Y/G TD Int Lng QB Car Yrd Y/G Lng TD
2019 3 0 12 15 144 .800 9.6 173.3 3 0 35 226.6 2 11 5.5 13 0
2020 7 7 99 158 1489 .627 9.4 212.7 13 5 71 162.2 62 263 4,2 33 2
Total 10 7 111 175 1624 .800 9.4 173.3 16 5 71 167.8 64 274 4.3 33 2

2020 season

Going into 2020, Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal indicated early Shough would be the starting quarterback vacated by Justin Herbert to the National Football League (NFL).[21] Despite moving to the NFL, Herbert remained in contact with Shough working over the phone and through text messages.[24]

Oregon and the other Pac-12 conference member schools would begin play in November with strict policies regarding testing, positivity rate, and contact tracing for the COVID-19 pandemic. Shough would definitively become the starter winning the season opener against Stanford 35-14.[25] Ultimately Shough would start every game including the Pac-12 Championship Game, a 31-24 win against USC.

Shough's performance became under question when the heavily favored Oregon lost back-to-back games against Oregon State and California. Due to the losses, Oregon would not have made it to the Pac-12 championship if it was not for Washington cancelling a regular season game against Oregon and could not represent the Pac-12 North for COVID-19 restrictions.[26][27] Despite Shough starting the Pac-12 Championship Game against USC, however the Boston College transfer Anthony Brown would take start taking offensive series.[28]

Oregon was selected to the Fiesta Bowl held in Glendale, Arizona, which is inside the Phoenix Metropolitan Area where he grew up. The opponent was Iowa State led by quarterback Brock Purdy of Gilbert, Arizona. The two quarterbacks are childhood friends since the age of 6 and Shough would lead Hamilton High School against Brock Purdy's Perry High School losing all 4 matchups. Shough started the game with 7/9 79 yards 1 INT however Cristobal would integrate Brown into the offense starting in the second quarter. Oregon lost the game but the 98-yard touchdown drive orchestrated by Brown made the quarterback position uncertain.[29]

References
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