No. 63 Kevin Feterik – Quarterback – 1996-1999
When we talk about great BYU quarterbacks the list is long and it is always the same. Steve Young, Ty Detmer, John Beck, Max Hall, Robbie Boscoe, John Walsh and Steve Sarkisian plus a few other names are the typical list. Granted this list of guys is really good and deserve to be on the list, but there are a few players that are always left off the list, and they really shouldn’t be. Kevin Feterik is one of those players.
Feterik may be the oddest one left off the list however for a few reasons. He was the starter for three seasons, went 23-14 overall, and threw the ball for more than 8,000 yards. Finally, he played in the late 1990’s meaning he didn’t play THAT long ago to be forgotten. All of these should indicate that he should be at least as well known as a player like John Beck or Brandon Doman and yet he isn’t.
When I started to write down the list of the Top 100 players, I didn’t even think of adding Feterik until I kept on seeing his statistics come across my screen. As I kept seeing the stats coming across his ranking rose all the way to now No. 63 on the list.
Rankings
Impacts B
Anytime you are a quarterback that leads a team to a winning record over three seasons the impact is going to be pretty high. Feterik was a really consistent player who got better as his career went on. A lot of the time a player will plateau after their junior seasons, but Feterik stayed consistent on getting better and better. One area that does hurt him is that he went 0-2 in bowl games and and 1-2 against Utah which may be part of the reason he isn’t remembered as much as other quarterbacks on the list.
Statistics B+
If I threw out a player that threw 8,065 yards on 60.2% for 53 touchdowns, 8.0 yards per attempt and only 27 interceptions you would probably think it is one of the BYU greats that are always talked about. While those numbers aren’t elite, they are really good and they throw players like Taysom Hill and John Walsh out of the water. The only really negative statistics that I was able to find is that he was sacked 93 times and he never had a positive running season.
Memorable Moments C-
The reality is, if you ask 100 casual BYU Football fans if they have even heard of Kevin Feterik they will probably say no, or say yes but don’t know what position he played. The bottom line is Feterik never led the team to a bowl game win, never had the hail mary game winning touchdown, and sadly for him, came at the end of a line of elite quarterbacks of Robbie Bosco, Ty Detmer and Steve Sarkisian and right before Brandon Doman. The most memorable moment for Feterick is probably the game winning touchdown pass to Chris Hale in 1999 against the Washington Huskies with just over a minute left in the game.