“We wanted someone that wanted to come compete here,” Coach Lincoln Riley says of the UNLV transfer, who committed three weeks after Moss’ Holiday Bowl heroics.
USC’s Miller Moss, left, will compete with Jayden Maiava for the Trojans’ starting quarterback job. LOS ANGELES — Miller Moss has mostly night classes this semester, which fortunately makes it easier to shield his face around USC’s campus, the crown now perched upon his golden hair.“Excited to see, kinda, what a team looks like when I’m able to really put my DNA on it,” Moss said at USC’s first spring practice, speaking with media for the first time since the Holiday Bowl.
“We wanted someone, at the end of the day, that wanted to come compete here, and believed in himself to come compete,” Riley said Tuesday of Maiava. He was soft-spoken Tuesday, too, speaking with excitement but steering largely clear of questions involving his decision-making in the transfer portal. And Maiava’s ability to earn teammates’ trust this spring will be crucial to challenging Moss for the starting job.As Caleb Williams leaves USC, Julian Lewis is set to follow
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