Jesse Scroggins is the man in the middle.
The redshirt freshman quarterback has less experience than two-year starter Matt Barkley and more, on the practice field, anyway, than freshmen Max Wittek and Cody Kessler.
Scroggins, Wittek and Kessler are competing to become Barkley's backup — and perhaps his successor in 2012 or 2013.
On Saturday, at the end of the first week of spring practice, Scroggins said that off-season workouts with teammates made him quicker and that his already strong arm felt more powerful.
His off-the-field regimen included yoga.
"To make me calm down," he said.
