SANTA CLARA, Calif -- They tried to tell us about Trevor Lawrence. The people of East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia and Upstate South Carolina. They tried to tell us that during this incredible college football Year of the Quarterback, when Oklahoma's Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy and Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins was breaking Big Ten passing records and Washington State's Gardner Minshew was doing the same in the Pac-12, oh, and Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa was being showered in talk of "Is he the greatest college QB ever?"
They tried to tell us that while we were watching those other guys, that they had been watching this longhaired, even-keeled kid at Clemson.