1) You have a time machine that can go back one decade (to 2013). You are allowed to grab one player from a previous Hokie football team and bring them to the present to immediately improve the 2023 football team. Who are you bringing from the past to the present and why? – Lumbee09

Chris Coleman: Well, if you limit me to 2013, that means I can’t pick Michael Vick or Tyrod Taylor. That would be an easy out, though, so I’m glad you gave me a limit. I’d pick Hendon Hooker, but I’ll give myself a rule that I can’t pick anyone who transferred out of the program.

While I’m a believer that Grant Wells and/or Kyron Drones can be successful at Virginia Tech, I know that Jerod Evans can be successful at Virginia Tech. In fact, a guy like Evans would be a perfect fit for what I believe the Hokie offense will try to look like this year. It will be a run-first system, and much of the passing game will be similar to some of the stuff Tech used to run with quarterbacks like Evans and Hendon Hooker.

Evans and Hooker (even at Tennessee) were never asked to sit back and go through three or more progressions very often. When they were asked to do that, it was a sign that the running game wasn’t going well on that particular day, or it was a late-game situation where the offense had to drive the length of the field in a short amount of time.

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