Frank Harris (quarterback, born 1999)

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Frank Harris
Position Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1999-03-27) March 27, 1999 (age 24)
San Antonio, Texas
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight205 lb (93 kg)
Career history
College
Bowl games
High school Samuel Clemens High School
(Schertz, Texas)
Career highlights and awards
  • C-USA Most Valuable Player (2022)
  • First-team All-AAC (2023)
  • First-team All-C-USA (2022)
  • Second-team All-C-USA (2021)

Frank Harris (born March 27, 1999) is a former American football quarterback who played seven seasons for the UTSA Roadrunners.

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College career

As a true freshman in 2017, Harris redshirted and did not play. [1]

In 2018, Harris missed the season due to knee injuries. [2]

As a redshirt-sophomore in 2019, Harris started four games before separating his shoulder and missing the rest of the year. [2]

During his redshirt-junior year, Harris started 11 games, completing 159-of-250 passes for 1,630 yards and 12 touchdowns, along with six interceptions. He additionally ran for 528 yards and scored nine touchdowns. [3] He led them to a berth in the 2020 First Responder Bowl, where they lost to Louisiana 31–24. [4]

In 2021, Harris started 14 games, and completed 263-of-398 passes for 3,177 yards and 27 touchdowns with six interceptions. He ran for 566 yards as well and scored six touchdowns. [5] Harris led UTSA to the conference championship, where he was 19-of-28 for 218 yards and two scores, while adding 81 yards on the ground as UTSA beat Western Kentucky 49–41. [6] The Roadrunners lost in the 2021 Frisco Bowl to San Diego State. [7] [8] At the end of the season, Harris was named second-team all-conference. [9]

In the 2022 season, Harris started 14 games and completed 328-of-471 pass attempts for 4,063 yards and 32 touchdowns. He also ran for 602 yards and nine scores, being named the Conference USA most valuable player and first-team all-conference. [10] [11] [12] Harris led the team to the 2022 Conference USA Football Championship Game, where UTSA defeated North Texas by a score of 48–27. [13] In the game, he threw for 341 yards and four touchdowns while completing all but five of his 37 pass attempts. [14] UTSA was defeated in the 2022 Cure Bowl by Troy, losing 18–12. [15]

Harris returned to UTSA for a seventh year in 2023. [16] After suffering a variety of different injuries during spring camp and the regular season, Harris was scratched from the 2023 Frisco Bowl. He would announce his retirement from playing football following the end of the season. [17]

Impact in San Antonio

With Harris on campus for a seventh season in 2023, he had been part of the program for more than half of its 13 seasons. In a 2023 ESPN story focusing on several "senior citizens" in college football, among them Harris, UTSA head coach Jeff Traylor said about him:

Frank Harris? In this city? There's going to be a lot of businesses lining up to hire Frank Harris. He's got an amazing story. I'd put him in sales and turn him loose. He'd make some millionaire a billionaire. Everybody knows Frank. Other than Wemby [Spurs draft pick, phenom Victor Wembanyama], I think he's the second most popular. ... I'd say it's Wemby, [Spurs coach Gregg Popovich], Tony Parker, David Robinson, [Manu] Ginobili, [Tim] Duncan, and then Frank's probably in there." [18]

Statistics

SeasonGamesPassingRushing
GPGSRecordCmpAttPctYdsAvgTDIntRtgAttYdsAvgTD
UTSA Roadrunners
2017 00—Redshirt Redshirt.svg
2018 00—Did not play due to injury
2019 441–3669172.54865.332123.9391263.20
2020 11107–315925063.61,6306.5126129.4955285.69
2021 141412–226339866.13,1778.7276152.51095665.26
2022 141411–332847169.64,0638.6329160.71296024.79
2023 10108–221833664.92,5067.5188140.4863233.84
Career 535239−131,0341,54666.911,8587.79231146.94472,1434.728

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