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BEST QB EVER IN EAST TENNESSEE


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Mark Byrd from Cloudland

 

Meow's post may be a few years early. Cloudland's Byrd has the potential to be one of the best but not the best in state history. I think Todd Helton, Steve Spurrier, and Pennington are the best in Tennessee with Matthews and Kelly close behind.

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The best I personally have seen play would be.

 

Jon David Blair----Boyd

Will healy----------Boyd

Tim Starky---------South Pittsburg

 

Boyd didn't win the state in 1999 but I still thought Blair was a great High School QB

 

Starky was not sensational but quarterbacked the 98 and 99 SP team which won state title in 99 and set the all time state scoring record for a single season in98.

 

Healy was stronger than Blair, but Blair was next to impossible to catch. I think SP had one of the best defensive teams in 1999 that has ever played football in the state regardless of classification and they couldn't get a hold of him this says alot for his skills. Even though they lost 99 and 2002 Boyd was still a winner as far as the 2 ouarterbacks go.

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Shane Kelley of Sevier County was the best quarterback I have watched in East Tennessee. Joey Matthews was good too.

 

Jason Phillips,Mike Phillips,Toki McCray and Ronnie Irwin of Maryville were good.

 

Andy Kelly of Rhea County was good.I never saw him play though.

 

Todd Helton was a great one at Central. I never saw him play though.

 

I saw Jerry Colquitt play and he was good.

 

The Bullock kid from Hixson was good.

 

Will Healy Impressed me a whole lot.

 

Mark Byrd is a good one.

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Jackie Pope tailback on Oak Ridge's 1958 National Champinship team averaged 15.2 yards per carry, completed 44 of 64 passes and led state in scoring.

 

Pope was also part of the state champioship 440 track relay team that year that won the state - which included two other members of the backfield (one of which was a fullback - Howard Dunneback who went on to play at Kentucky)

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can I go back a few years? How about Tommy Beaver - 1969-70 Maryville State Championship team. Tommy signed with UT and the last I heard was a golf pro somewhere in the southeast. Tommy was a parade all-american on a team that finished the year ranked 12th nationally in one national highschool polls.

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Beaver's a pro down in Madisonville or something. Anyhow, Steve Spurrier (as much as I hate to admit it) won a Heisman Trophy, how could he not be the best quarterback ever from East Tennessee?! Also, think about Jason Davis from Seymour, he had the best arm I've seen in a long, long time...yes, better than Mathews.

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