re: Random athletes that you thought would have long careers but never did

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Yea, he was a douche, but his junior year at Notre Dame was one of the best individual passing seasons I thought I'd ever seen from a college quarterback.


Are you 12?

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Hardly - he was excellent that year. It was drowned out by the fact that he was on a very mediocre team with an abysmal defense and a coach on his way out, but he was really, really good. His accuracy was astonishing at times. He had four interceptions that season on something like 430 attempts; two of them bounced off the hands of receivers and another was an end-of-half Hail Mary.

This article, while obviously biased, does a decent job of fleshing out what I'm talking about.