First, it was Ari Confesor of Holy Cross. Last weekend, it was Brown dynamo Chas Gessner.

On Saturday, Lehigh junior Michael Sutton became the third player in three games this season to hurt Harvard with his big-play potential.

The shifty Sutton hauled in 11 passes for 204 yards, including a 73-yard touchdown play during which he went through two Crimson defenders to catch a pass from Mountain Hawk quarterback Chad Shwenk.

“We were trying to beat [Sutton] as a secondary unit,” said Harvard junior Mante Dzakuma, who wasn’t even on Harvard’s two-deep roster entering the season but picked off two passes against Lehigh. “He’s quick and he’s tough to cover. He had the hot hand today.”

Sutton was also dangerous in the return game. Early in the second quarter, he fielded an Adam Kingston punt at the Lehigh 34. Four missed tackles and 57 yards later, he put the Mountain Hawks in position for what proved to be their first touchdown of the game.

Not the only ones

Harvard wasn’t the only team at Goodman Stadium with uncertainty surrounding its quarterback situation on Saturday, as the Mountain Hawks had started two different quarterbacks during their first four games.

Junior Matt Shiels got the starting nod against the Crimson, but he completed just three of seven passes for 12 yards and had an interception before Lembo lifted him in favor of Schwenk.

Shwenk responded, hitting on 18 of 29 passes for 256 yards, one touchdown, one interception and—most importantly — a comeback victory that might have ended Lehigh’s quarterback controversy.

“I was pleased with Chad’s play,” Lembo said. “The bottom line is that he got the job done.”

—Staff writer Jon P. Morosi can be reached at morosi@fas.harvard.edu.