Army star QB Daily returns versus North Texas

• Pete Thamel Close Pete Thamel ESPN College Football Elder Author for ESPN. Expert for College Gameday.Chris Low Close Chris Low ESPN Elder Writer College football press reporter Signed up with ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Nov 9, 2024, 07:30 AM ET Army quarterback Bryson Daily will begin for

• the No. 25 Black Knights against North Texas on Saturday.Daily, the engine of Army’s powerful offense

, missed the group’s win over Air Force recently with a concealed injury. Sources informed ESPN that he went back to practice this week for a walk-through Thursday and practiced completely for the first time Friday before Army left for Denton, Texas.Army is 8-0 and off to its best start considering that 1996. Army checked in as the third-highest-ranked team from outside a power conference in the first College Football Playoff rankings, as it is placed behind No. 12 Boise State(7-1 )and No. 21 Washington State (7-1 ). Army remains in top place in the American Athletic Conference, 6-0 in conference play and ahead of 5-0 Tulane.According to sources, Daily has “looked like himself “considering that he returned to practice. However there is some issue, according to sources, about his capability to play a full game coming off a two-week stretch where he took part in only one

practice and one walk-through. The possibility looms that backup quarterback Dewayne Coleman, who started his very first career game versus Air Force, will wind up getting snaps. Till late today, he had actually taken all the snaps with Army’s first-team offense the past two weeks.Daily’s return is important for Army as he leads the nation in both rushing touchdowns for a quarterback( 19) and hurrying yards per game for a quarterback(129.8). Only Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty has more rushing goals( 20). Prior to the injury, Daily had played 2 of the best games of his

career, as he scored five hurrying touchdowns and ran for 171 yards against East Carolina and had 4 hurrying touchdowns and 136 backyards against UAB.Army leads the country with 340.1 hurrying backyards per game.