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The Next Minshew? Record-Breaking WSU QB Anthony Gordon Has the NFL on Alert

PULLMAN, Wash. — Zero stars. Zero scholarship offers.

Unwanted and unrecruited. Overlooked and ignored.

From zero stars as a high school recruit to four years of not playing a significant snap of major college football to this analysis from an NFL scout of Washington State's first-year starting quarterback and fifth-year senior Anthony Gordon:

"I was on the field about a month ago, watching him throw," the scout says. "The ball jumped off his hand. … His release, just unreal. I haven't seen anything like it in years. I kind of laughed to myself because this whole thing is such an inexact science.