The best player in UTSA football history is returning for one more year. Frank Harris, the record-setting quarterback, announced on Wednesday alongside some of the most prominent members of the city of San Antonio that he’d return for the 2023 season. Harris led the Roadrunners to consecutive Conference USA titles and holds virtually every record a quarterback can hold at UTSA. 

The return of Harris is a positive result of the NIL rules allowed in college football. He’d be off to the professional level to try his luck if boosters and city leaders weren’t allowed to compensate him and his teammates for the money the Roadrunners bring into the city with their success. UTSA is moving to the American Athletic Conference in 2023. 

Harris is a Converse native who attended Clemens High School before arriving at UTSA in 2017. He took a redshirt that season as he recovered from an injury that cost him the second half of his senior season. He missed 2018 and most of 2019 with injuries, as well. 

His luck began to change in 2020 when UTSA hired head coach Jeff Traylor. Harris remained healthy throughout the pandemic-shortened season and threw for 1,639 yards and 12 touchdowns while adding 528 yards and nine more scores on the ground. He set UTSA records in 2021 with 3,177 yards, 27 touchdowns, and a completion percentage of 66.1. He was second-team all-C-USA as the Roadrunners went 12-2 and won the program’s first-ever conference title in football.

Traylor describes Harris as the “most improved player I’ve ever coached.” That improvement continued in 2022 with Harris taking another step in his evolution under offensive coordinator Will Stein, who recently took the same job at Oregon. Harris through for a career-high 3,865 yards and 31 touchdowns. He also ran for a career-high 588 yards and nine scores. He’s the first player at UTSA to account for more than 4,000 yards of total offense in a season.