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Blackledge had a decorated college career with the Nittany Lions, highlighted by leading Penn State to its first national title in 1982 and winning the Davey O'Brien award as college football's best quarterback.

This year's game was close throughout, with Eagles quarterback Nick Foles leading his team to its first Super Bowl victory and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady heaving a last - second pass that fell incomplete.

Quarterback Josh Allen is projected to be one of the top picks in the 2018 NFL Draft, but a series of offensive tweets that recently surfaced could give some teams pause before selecting him with one of the top picks in the first round.

Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway spent his entire career with the Denver Broncos and led the team to its first Super Bowl championship in 1998 and again in 1999.

With the first pick of this year's NFL draft, the Cleveland Browns selected Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield.

Now Bryant will have to prove himself with a new quarterback and, for the first time in his career, with a new team.

A laminated poster of Auburn quarterback Cam Newton celebrating the Tigers» 28 — 27 comeback victory with fellow first - round pick Nick Fairley hangs in every stall in the «Bama dressing room this off - season.

The Cyclones» 33 - 31 victory over the host Sooners in 1990 played out in startlingly similar fashion: a ranked OU went up 14 - 0 in the first quarter against an ISU team dealing with a quarterback injury, then threw it into cruise too early.

They seem to be down to choosing between quarterbacks Josh Allen and Sam Darnold with the first overall pick.

If the Bears decide to select a quarterback with their first - round pick, Mitch Trubisky (+1200) and DeShone Kizer (+2000) are the top - ranked players on most draft boards.

On five separate occasions, demonstrably superior USC teams have lost to UCLA, often with a conference or national title on the line: 1992 (to a walk - on fifth string quarterback), 1994 (with the Rose Bowl possibly on the line), 1995, 2006 (with a national title shot on the line), and 2012 (with a spot in the first Pac - 12 title game at stake).

At first, the offense struggled against the New York Giants, with quarterback Sam Bradford throwing an interception, dropping a fumble and going three - and - out more times than the home crowd liked during the first half.

Clemson QB Deshaun Watson just became the first Division I quarterback with 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season.

Quarterback Jake Coker and his young receiving corps struggled to find a rhythm in the first half of the season, but Coker completed 71 percent of his passes with five touchdowns and no interceptions over the final three games.

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Bryant also appeared to get into a tiff with quarterback Tony Romo, yelling at the quarterback about not being targeted until the end of the first half.

During his media availability on Tuesday, West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett brought to light that his first kiss was with Nick...

Since 2002, Tom Brady's first full season as a starting quarterback, the Dolphins have made the playoffs one time — in 2008, when Brady was out for the season with a torn ACL.

Kirby Smart's first game coaching the Dawgs comes on a not - particularly - neutral site in the Georgia Dome against a team with a new starting quarterback.

Four of those five quarterbacks, with Wilson being the exception, were drafted in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft.

Now in this season as he goes about the business of proving that he is worth every cent of his contract (he has thrown nine touchdown passes and put the Jets in first place in the American Football League's Eastern Division through five games), he is becoming the quarterback that Werblin gambled he would be — a throwing artist who may eventually rank with the best — and he is still a swinger.

Oregon State folded in the second half of a 58 — 27 loss to Colorado State in Fort Collins, which got out of hand after juco transfer quarterback Jake Luton ended the first two drives of the second half with interceptions, the first of which was returned 44 yards for a touchdown by Rams linebacker Tre Thomas.

KANSAS CITY (4 -1-0) moved into a first - place tie with San Diego in the Western Division by defeating Denver (1 -4-0) 37 - 10 despite a 100 - yard kickoff return by the Broncos» Nemiah Wilson and the presence of Quarterback Tobin Rote in the Denver lineup after two seasons of retirement.

The Bel Air quarterback had scored five touchdowns in a win the week before, while Douglass, after opening the season with two wins before the cancelled game, had suffered its first loss to Edmonson - Westside, 14 - 8, a team they beat by 43 points in 2014.

In Shanahan's first - floor office, with the practice fields outside his window (at one point, in an early phase of the off - season strength and conditioning program, a group of players including quarterbacks Brian Hoyer and Matt Barkley stretched out on the field), he and Lynch studied candidates; Marathe and vice president of player personnel Adam Peters filtered in and out, in between projects and calls.

The fired Doug Whaley, history will show, likely overspent trading up for first - round wideout Sammy Watkins in 2014, and picked wrong with quarterback E.J. Manuel in the first round in 2013.

Last Friday, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue voided first - year quarterback Rick Mirer's contract with the Seattle Seahawks, calling it a sham.

With quarterbacks off the board with the first three picks — including Darnold to Cleveland at No. 1 — the Browns are able to take the top defensive player off the board at NoWith quarterbacks off the board with the first three picks — including Darnold to Cleveland at No. 1 — the Browns are able to take the top defensive player off the board at Nowith the first three picks — including Darnold to Cleveland at No. 1 — the Browns are able to take the top defensive player off the board at No. 4.

For multiple reasons, the Browns must draft their quarterback of the future with the first pick.

Joe Thomas, the Browns left tackle and future Hall of Famer, has said on multiple occasions this offseason that Dorsey was going to bring in a veteran quarterback, even if they draft a quarterback with the first pick.

PittsburghSteelers, adroitly maneuvered by Quarterback Jim Finks, weathered sharp NewYork passing attack (26 attempts, 20 completions) to shade Giants 19 - 17, maintained first - place tie with Cleveland in Eastern Conference of NationalFootball League.

Now: SB Nation's mock draft database shows the Browns will likely go with a quarterback and a running back in the first round again.

Davis, who was on the Dallas staff when Troy Aikman had a horrible first two years, realizes that a quarterback has to be judged in part by the supporting cast he has to work with.

SportStar Of The Week Folsom Football Senior • In his first varsity start at quarterback, Curry showed no signs of fear or uncertainty with the program's high - powered offense resting on his right arm.

That's something endearing, like being a fan of a program that never won more than eight games even with a first - round pick at quarterback.

Even with a junior season that ended with 4,802 combined passing and rushing yards, 56 touchdowns and a Cal - Hi Sports All - State selection — and leading Rancho Cotate to a 5 - 0 start to 2017 with a 146.2 quarterback rating — he's not the first pick of any notable college program.

After talking with Michigan's quarterbacks on Friday, ESPN's Dan Murphy believes Wilton Speight, not John O'Korn, will be the first one...

He rose an inch or two, straightening himself like a spear, and when he charged, screaming with his teammates towards the end zone to plant the stake in the grass, all the questions from alumnae and boosters and radio commentators - about so many first - year starters and so many two - way players, and about a quarterback controversy — seemed to have been answered.

Pittsburgh came away from week 1 with a overtime victory over Atlanta in the first of four games without starting quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, but are a 5.5 point underdog from an opening line of 6 in their week 2 match - up against Tennessee.

If the Cardinals were going into this campaign with a Unitas or a Starr at quarterback, they would be odds - on for first place.

With starting quarterback Jameis Winston suspended and sophomore Sean Maguire making typical first - start mistakes against Clemson, FSU needed to lean on its run game if at all possible.

The first team is solid and experienced, with the exception of the quarterback position.

Nineteen starters are back from last year's 6 - 5 team that lost three games by a total of eight points, and the Sun Devils are the only Pac - 10 team with three returning first - team all - conference performers — Roque, quarterback Jake Plummer and wide receiver Keith Poole.

It wouldn't be the first time that NFL teams were unimpressed with the quarterback wares in a given year.

And with pro-caliber talent like quarterback Jim Druckenmiller (a first - round pick in 1997) and receiver Antonio Freeman (third - rounder in 1995), the offense was catching up.

It came with an asterisk, sure — the Noles hosted the Wolfpack after a three - week FSU hiatus (due to Hurricane Irma) and with a freshman quarterback starting his first game (due to Deondre Francois» injury).

Last weekend, with two healthy quarterbacks, the Bengals won, and Brown was wondering how long it will be before he could have that first glorious martini.

Jittery andineffective for most of the first half, Stanback was soothed by a halftimeconfab with former Huskies quarterback Warren Moon.

However, they will be fully focused on the Chiefs first, with the hosts looking to their own running back, Jamaal Charles, to break through Seattle's defense with quarterback Alex Smith not finding a receiver for a touchdown all season.

Sources with knowledge of the probe say Clark has admitted to league attorneys that he acted improperly in the course of negotiations on a contract for quarterback Jim Druckenmiller, San Francisco's first - round draft pick in 1997.