PULLMAN, Wash. — Following the Crimson and Gray Spring Game, new WSU head football coach Jimmy Rogers promised more competition was on the way for presumptive starting quarterback Zevi Eckhaus and backup Jaxon Potter.

Rogers has made good on that promise adding transfer quarterbacks on back to back days to strengthen the WSU quarterbacks room.

The Cougs signed Rutgers transfer quarterback Ajani Sheppard yesterday and Pittsburgh transfer quarterback Julian Dugger today.

Sheppard played in five games in his two seasons at Rutgers completing two passes for 23 yards and rushing for 34 yards on four carries.

The dual threat Bronx native was a three star recruit out of high school and was the sixth overall recruit in the state of New York.

Dugger played in one game in his freshman season at Pitt. He completed seven passes for 72 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 88 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries. 

The dual threat southpaw from Pittsburgh was a consensus top 30 recruit out of Pennsylvania after starting for four years at Penn Hills High School.

The Cougar quarterbacks room now features a ton of youth following the veteran Eckhaus. Potter, Sheppard, Dugger and freshmen Dalton Anderson and Owen Eshelman figure to compete to be the future Cougar starting quarterback after this season.

While Eckhaus has been the starter throughout the spring, Rogers was impressed by what he saw from Potter during spring ball and was clear that Eckhaus is not the starter just yet and that the quarterback competition would continue into the fall.

These two additions should help ramp up that competition and provide depth moving forward for WSU at the quarterback position.