The junior college transfer was not expected to play right away. An injury to Drew Barker forced the undersized former Grambling quarterback into action. Nobody knew that would be the start of something special.
“I’d be lying if I just sat up here and said you knew exactly what you were going to get. That’s not true,” Mark Stoops said earlier this week. “He has probably exceeded expectations as far as some of those intangibles that you’re looking for. For a guy to come in and be a junior college transfer and have the type of leadership that somebody in here was just asking about, is definitely something special.