The Education of Lamar Jackson: How Louisville QB Went from Project to Superstar

Posted by Greg Couch on September-6-2016 Add Comments

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The education of Lamar Jackson started with one very discouraging thought: "I can't study this."      

That's what Jackson remembers thinking when he opened his college playbook for the first time. It was the spring of 2015. He had just finished his starring run as Boynton Beach High's quarterback down in Florida. More than 50 points a game that year, and the nation's top college coaches were drooling.

He picked Louisville, knowing coach Bobby Petrino's history of developing QBs. Then Petrino delivered the playbook.

"It looked ...

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