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The Encore Quarterback: Chandler Morris and the art of stepping in for a championship team
Need proof TCU Horned Frogs quarterback Chandler Morris has the moxie to take the place of departed star Max Duggan? Look no further than his picture hanging in the Highland Park Scots' weight room.
Chandler Morris assumed the starting quarterback role for a TCU program that everyone expected to crash back down to earth this season.
The Horned Frogs captured the magic of Hypnotoad last year, winning five one-score games. Surely, it couldn't be repeated. Quarterback Max Duggan finished second in Heisman voting, the embodiment of that scrappy team. He'd piloted TCU, picked seventh in the preseason Big 12 poll, to a 13–2 record and the National Championship game.
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