Completed 10-of-12 passes for 102 yards and a pair of touchdowns in 2019 Maroon and White Spring Game (4/18/19), including a 43-yard TD strike to Ja’Ron Burks.
2018: Played in 2 ball games as a junior signal caller ... Completed 5-of-8 passes for 69 yards and a TD with a team-best 151.2 efficiency rating for the season ... Completed 4-of-6 passes for 65 yards and a TD -- a 33-yard strike to Tyler Currie -- in home opener against Lincoln (9/6/18) ... Played one series at South Dakota State (11/3/18) and was 1-for-2 through the air with 2 rushing yards ... Earned MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award and recognized on MVFC Honor Roll ... Named to MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for fall and spring semesters .. Completed 6-of-11 passes for 66 yards in Maroon and White Spring Game (4/19/18), including a 33-yard completion to Mauricio Chio.
2017: Made 6 appearances in his debut season at MSU after transferring from Rice ... Finished with a 122.58 pass efficiency for the season ... Had best outing in home win over Indiana State (10/28/17), completing 7-of-10 passes for 74 yards and 86 yards of total offense ... Completed his only TD pass of the season in Indiana State game -- a 26-yard TD completion to Jason Randall in the first quarter ... Connected on 3-of-4 pass attempts at North Dakota State (9/30/17) for 29 yards ... Was 3-of-5 through the air for 24 yards vs. South Dakota State at home (10/21/17) ... Earned MVFC Honor Roll laurels ... Named to MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 semesters.
Rice University: Played in 4 games as a redshirt freshman in 2016 for coach David Bailiff at Conference USA program in Houston, Texas ... Threw for a season-best 56 yards (5-11-0) against Stanford in the season finale (11/26/16), leading the Owls on a 92-yard scoring drive in the 4th quarter ... Completed his first passes against FAU (2-5-1, 27 yards) (11/5/16) .... Made his debut vs. Prairie View (10/22/16), leading a scoring drive that was capped by his first career touchdown, a four-yard run on his only carry ... Was 6-for-10 for 60 yards in Rice’s Spring Game (4/7/17) ... Redshirted in his first year with the Owls in 2015 ...
High School: Three-time All-Southwest Preparatory Conference selection and the player of the year as a senior for coach Nathan Larned at Kinkaid High School ... Completed 62 percent of his passes as a senior and compiled a 115.1 quarterback rating ... Threw for over 9,000 yards and 81 touchdowns in his three seasons with the Falcons ... Led them to the SPC title as a junior in 2012 ... A member of the Houston Chronicle’s Houston Top 100 ... Ranked by Dave Campbell’s Texas Football as the No. 10 quarterback in its postseason edition ... Member of DCTF’s Texas Top 300 and listed as one of the top 30 quarterbacks heading into his senior year ... Also lettered in basketball and baseball.
Personal: John Tyler Granato was born 3/18/97 in Houston, Texas ... Son of John and Wendy Granato of Houston ... Has two sisters, Frankie and Stephani ... Majoring in Administrative Management ... Plays the guitar and piano.
CAREER HONORS
MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award: 2018; MVFC Honor Roll: 2018; MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll: (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019).
