Jarrett Pekelo Kahanuolaokalani "Anu" Solomon Jr. (born November 5, 1994) is a former American football quarterback for the Arizona Wildcats and Baylor Bears.
He began his college football career at Arizona, before deciding to transfer after his senior year to Baylor.
His father, Jarrett Sr., was an all star, all-state linebacker at Farrington High School and attended San Jose State University.
As a youngster, Anu played a variety of sports—baseball (pitcher), basketball (point guard) and football (linebacker and quarterback).
Quarterbacking the Bishop Gorman Gaels since his freshman season, he helped in winning the school a record four state titles.
After a 10–3 regular season, the Wildcats were selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl, a New Year Six game in the CFB Playoff, against Boise State.
Boise State would win the game 38–30, giving Solomon his only loss as a starter during his college career.
In the season opener, Solomon completed 22 of 36 passes for 229 yards and four touchdowns as Arizona defeated UTSA 34–16.
Missed time did not prevent him from improving his completion percentage (62.1 percent) and efficiency (146.98) numbers from a breakout freshman season.
He had set a school record for most attempts to begin a season without an interception (210) and saw another program record of 233 overall attempts without a pick come to an end at Washington (10/31) He had a season high for passing yards came at USC (352), while twice tossed four touchdown passes (UTSA, 9/3; Nevada, 9/12).
Started and played 4 games, he missed seven contests including Grambling State, Hawaii, Washington, at UCLA, at Utah, USC, and ASU due to injury.
On December 13, 2016, it was announced that Solomon intended to transfer from Arizona, graduating early to be eligible to play in 2017.
On October 31, 2017, head coach Matt Rhule announced that Solomon would be withdrawing from Baylor due to his concussion.