Saturday’s game between Utah and Texas Tech was supposed to center around the quarterback matchup between the Utes’ Devon Dampier and the Red Raiders’ Behren Morton, as the pair had shown through the first three weeks of the season that they are on an upward trajectory to being two of the top quarterbacks in the Big 12.

Texas Tech redshirt freshman Will Hammond, though, took advantage of an opportunity to shine in the No. 17 Red Raiders’ 34-10 road win over the No. 16 Utes at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Morton was lost for the game on Texas Tech’s first drive of the second half after he took a hard shot from Utah linebacker Johnathan Hall, and while Hammond didn’t immediately pay dividends — the Red Raiders punted the ball on their first three possessions of the second half — the redshirt fresh

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