{"id":18379,"date":"2023-10-02T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=18379"},"modified":"2023-10-02T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T21:32:06","slug":"dave-doeren-announces-mj-morris-as-starting-quarterback-benches-brennan-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/dave-doeren-announces-mj-morris-as-starting-quarterback-benches-brennan-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Doeren announces MJ Morris as starting quarterback, benches Brennan Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfpack has a new alpha. On Monday, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/nc-state-wolfpack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NC State<\/a><\/strong> head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/coach\/dave-doeren-131956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Doeren<\/a><\/strong> announced <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/mj-morris-90053\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MJ Morris<\/a><\/strong> will be the team\u2019s starting quarterback moving forward, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheWolfpacker\/status\/1708876040032964678?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per The Wolfpacker<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after a poor showing from QB <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/db\/brennan-armstrong-13846\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brennan Armstrong<\/a><\/strong> in NC State\u2019s 13-10 loss to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/louisville-cardinals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisville<\/a><\/strong> in Week 5. In the defeat, Armstrong completed just 13-of-his-25 pass attempts for 112 yards and zero touchdowns. The sixth-year QB also threw two interceptions in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Morris is yet to see playing time this season. However, in his freshman season last year, Morris recorded 648 passing yards and seven touchdowns while connecting 60.5% of his passing attempts. Morris will make his first start on Saturday as NC State squares off against Marshall 2 p.m. ET on the CW Network.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/college\/nc-state-wolfpack\/news\/dave-doeren-announces-mj-morris-as-starting-quarterback-benches-brennan-armstrong\/\">Dave Doeren announces MJ Morris as starting quarterback, benches Brennan Armstrong<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.on3.com\/\">On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wolfpack has a new alpha. On Monday, NC State head coach Dave Doeren announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}