Seth Henigan is focused and ready for a big year entering his junior season and 3rd year as the Tigers starting quarterback.
He's thrown for 6,881 yards and has 47 passing touchdowns. He needs 3,810 to break Brady White's all-time passing yards mark at Memphis. That would be an average of 317.5 yards per game.
The yards isn't what is important to him. Wins matters more.
"He (Brady White) has more wins than me and that's more important but it would be cool to break the record here at Memphis," Henigan said at the AAC Media Days.
What does success look like for Henigan this year?
"Success to me this year is winning a lot of games. We've had some success the past 2 seasons and we've lost close games. Just winning games is all that matters at the end of the day."
He also knows there's room for improvement.
"I need to work on that deep ball accuracy and try to limit the turnovers. Last year they came in spurts in some games and that led to us losing games in my opinion. Hone in on taking care of the football and continuing to progress."
The past two seasons haven't gone the way he wanted. There's been some ups and downs but he knows that the adversity that he's been through will only make him better.
"I've definitely had those downs in my career coming of of back to back seasons where we didn't reach our goal. The tribulations have led to this season and we'll try to win as many games as possible."
Memphis has to replace their top 4 receivers but Memphis has done a great job in the transfer portal finding replacements and upgrades. They have Toledo's DeMeer Blankumsee and Missouri's Tauskie Dove. They also have Roc Taylor and Joe Scates returning and Henigan said he's been building a rapport with all of them.
"The new receivers and I built a rapport pretty quickly. Demeer Blankumsee and I became pretty good friends. We did some non-profit stuff work helping kids out. We did that in the winter and in the spring. Tauskie Dove from Missouri went to my high school. We didn't know each other well but being from the same high school helped us built that connection pretty fast. I real excited about fall camp and where that takes us. All of our wide receivers have shown flashes. We have a deep wide receiver room and I'm excited to see what we all can do."
The talent is there at Memphis and Henigan knows it.
"This might be the most talented team I've been on since I've been at Memphis."
The schedule lines up nicely for Memphis and Henigan knows the opportunity to win the conference championship is there. When asked if they are ready for the season and all the opportunities that this year has he simply nodded and said, "We're ready."
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