{"id":54437,"date":"2016-08-20T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T04:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=54437"},"modified":"2016-08-20T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T04:50:03","slug":"trojans-name-browne-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=54437","title":{"rendered":"Trojans Name Browne Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54238\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=54238\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54238\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54238\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-698x768.jpg\" alt=\"Max Browne will open the season as the starting QB for USC (Photo by Duane Barker)\" width=\"520\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-698x768.jpg 698w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-64x70.jpg 64w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-136x150.jpg 136w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441-900x990.jpg 900w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_4441.jpg 1715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Max Browne will open the season as the starting QB for USC (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Los Angeles) &#8211; USC Coach\u00a0Clay Helton named Max Browne the\u00a0starting quarterback\u00a0Saturday afternoon. Browne,\u00a0a redshirt junior, had the edge coming into\u00a0training camp but he was pressed the least few weeks by redshirt freshman Sam Darnold. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point, we feel that it is in the best interest of our football team to lean on the veteran experience that Max Browne has, so we have named him the starter going into our opening game against Alabama,&#8221; Helton said in a statement. &#8220;With our experienced offensive line and the weapons at our skill positions, we as a staff are confident that Max&#8217;s ability will help guide a very successful offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helton also said that he would still use\u00a0Darnold in some red-zone and short yardage situations.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans open the 2016 season September 3\u00a0against defending champion\u00a0Alabama in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54252\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=54252\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54252\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54252\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_6781-e1470550333255-602x768.jpg\" alt=\"It wasn't an easy decision for USC HC Clay Helton (Photo by Tim Peterson)\" width=\"520\" height=\"663\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It wasn&#8217;t an easy decision for USC HC Clay Helton (Photo by Tim Peterson)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Los Angeles) &#8211; USC Coach\u00a0Clay Helton named Max Browne the\u00a0starting quarterback\u00a0Saturday afternoon. Browne,\u00a0a redshirt junior, had the edge coming into\u00a0training camp but he was pressed the least few weeks by redshirt freshman Sam Darnold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[8409,12183,8872,12127,8137],"class_list":["post-54437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","tag-alabama-football","tag-clay-helton","tag-max-browne","tag-sam-darnold","tag-usc-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54438,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54437\/revisions\/54438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}