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Pat Fitzgerald makes hilarious promise to media on starting QB announcement

Kevin Cunningham

By Kevin Cunningham

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Clayton Thorson is gone. He’s off to the NFL.

Prior to Thorson playing professionally, he spent time at Northwestern and won plenty of games while throwing for plenty of yards. Thorson was one of the best to ever do it for the Wildcats. That isn’t a question.

What is a question is who will succeed Thorson? Will it be Clemson transfer and former five-star recruit Hunter Johnson? Or will it be senior T.J. Green?

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Everyone is dying to know who the job will go to and we want to know when the announcement will be made. Just yesterday, Justin Fields was named the starting QB at Ohio State. So, what about Northwestern?

Here’s head coach Pat Fitzgerald on when he will name the starting signal-caller:

This is hilarious.

Also, talk about a last-second decision and announcement.

Kevin Cunningham

Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.