It was Joe Burrow’s stage. His 2019 season, one of the best ever for a college quarterback, ended in picture-perfect fashion as he waited for his press conference Monday night after LSU won the national title, uniform on and a cigar in his soon-to-be million-dollar right hand.
Burrow ended 2019 with 60 touchdown passes, a new college football record, but he is not the only player from a star-studded 2020 title game who saw his draft stock move on a night that every evaluator worth their paycheck will assess and reassess.
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