2022 Countdown to IUFB Kickoff: 14 Days Part I (Jack Tuttle)

Written by Matt Smith

Welcome to the 2022 edition of the Hoosier Huddle Countdown! We are now officially underway as we countdown from 100 to the beginning of the 2022 Indiana University football season. Each day, we will take a look at one (or two) players on the current roster and highlight the players' role in the upcoming season. Number 14 on the list is redshirt senior Jack Tuttle.

Name: Jack Tuttle

Hometown: San Marcos, CA

Position: QB

Year: Redshirt Senior 

Height/Weight: 6’4’’/ 212 lbs

Instagram: @jacktuttle14

Jack Tuttle is going into this season as one of the most experienced Hoosiers on the roster. However, he comes into training camp in the middle of a quarterback battle with transfer Connor Bazelak. 

Tuttle is the more experienced player out of the two and has the most command of the locker room as well. 

Tuttle appeared in six games last season, and threw for 423 yards and two touchdowns. The offense struggled mightily last year and part of that reason was due to the fact that there were multiple changes with the quarterbacks as Tuttle was injured for a little bit of the season. He was also a William V. Cambell award semifinalist.

However, Tuttle had his most notable Hoosier moment during his huge win at Wisconsin during his sophomore season. Michael Penix Jr. went down and Tuttle started the game and threw for 130 yards and two touchdowns to take down the Badgers on the road.

This led Tuttle to win the team's LEO award during the offseason of 2021.

During fall camp, Tuttle is in a position battle, but he thinks it is a good thing.

"I think I'd always encourage competition on a team," Tuttle said Friday in a press conference. "I think maybe that's something -- we've always had competition, but in recent years, maybe not as much. So I think competition is an amazing thing for a team. It's only going to improve everybody who's in it and on the team, so all good for me."

This season the Hoosiers will need to move past last season and have a chip on their shoulder in order to improve. 

"Just having that whole month of December just to kind of sit there and really think how last year went compared to two great years before that, a lot of thoughts came into my head," Tuttle said. "... All the thoughts really had a lot of accountability stuff in there, presented to the whole team in January. And that kind of just created that spark we needed, and that motivation we needed, and that hunger we needed to get back, grind, do what we need to do and improve."