Kansas State has seven quarterbacks on their football roster going into the fall.

Bill Snyder was asked about that during Big 12 Media Days in Dallas Monday, and about the summer transfer of of quarterback Jonathan Banks…what he possesses and how he might fit into the mix.

Snyder told the media he thought probably four of the quarterbacks should be competitive for the position, and Kansas State will go into their two-a-day practices with that in mind. “It’s hard to get all the repetitions you would like with four guys sharing the opportunities, so it will be significant for us to be able to pare that down as quickly as we possibly can. I don’t know how fast that will be. Right now they’re all on equal footing.

Snyder noted three of them went through spring practice, and Banks, who just recently joined the Wildcats is an athletic young guy. “We haven’t seen him in a practice environment yet. So that remains to be seen. But he will be one of the four probably that will be certainly in competition for the position.”

The K-State coach was also asked if he could envision a scenario where maybe the Wildcats platoon quarterbacks, or play two. Snyder responded by saying, “You know, it’s possible. We’ve done it. When you have two, it’s not my favorite thing to do. I don’t exclude anything, most people wouldn’t, but that’s not our intent at this particular point in time. Our intent is just exactly as I had indicated, is try to sort through what we have and work our way into positions where we have a quarterback.”

Snyder added K-State has played two quarterbacks on the field at the same time. And he wrapped up his comments on the subject by saying, “But at the end of the day the bottom line is I concur with what most people would say, you’re better served to have one than two. You can define that a lot of different ways. I’m pleased that we have four, but we do have to have a number one out of those four, and that’s the direction we’re trying to go.”