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Paxton Lynch’s Colorado connections started before he became a star at Memphis and long before John Elway selected him with the No. 26 pick in the draft Thursday.
Lynch, a 6-foot-7, 245-pound quarterback with a strong arm and quick feet, idolized one of the early dual-threat quarterbacks in Kordell Stewart, one of CU’s most prolific passers in history.
“That’s my man right there,” Lynch said at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. “I had a Slash poster in my room all through college and in my younger days.”
Lynch and Stewart share the same agent, Leigh Steinberg, and the two first met at Steinberg’s Super Bowl party in San Francisco in February.