Bobo Picks Nick Stevens As Rams Starting QB: 'Help This Team Get Better'

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (CBS4)- Colorado State football coach Mike Bobo says redshirt sophomore Nick Stevens brings more consistency to the team as a starting quarterback.

Stevens succeeds Garrett Grayson, who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the third round.

Stevens of Murrieta, California, backed up Grayson last season. In mop-up duty, he completed 15 of 25 passes for 136 yards and a touchdown, a 36-yard pass to Rashard Higgins against Tulsa.

Stevens beat out redshirt freshman Coleman Key, who will serve as Stevens' backup.

"I don't want Nick looking over his shoulder if he makes one mistake he's coming out but he's got to know that Coleman is going to push him and he's going to have to respond and keep his level of play up to help this team get better," said Bobo.

Bobo, a longtime Georgia assistant in his first year as a head coach in Fort Collins, said Stevens won the job because he was more consistent than Key.