Ed Orgeron has spent three seasons watching Heisman quarterbacks from the sidelines.
Gino Toretta won the award at Miami in 1992, while Carson Palmer (2002) and Matt Leinart (2004) earned the trophy while Orgeron was an assistant coach at USC.
As he’s watched Joe Burrow tear up opposing defenses for the first quarter of the 2019 season, he can’t help but remember that decorated trio.
“I've seen a lot of similarities,” Orgeron says, “or maybe (Burrow doing) some things even better than I remember those guys doing. He could become that quarterback.