Again, like my post about attendance, it's the proper context. This is the same rag that had TWO Heisman voters who DIDN'T vote for Larry Fitzgerald for Heisman (and still defend that to this day). Who yawned when Aaron Donald won every award BUT the Heisman 2 years ago. But THIS guy is automatically the best college QB.
To this day nobody in the Pittsburgh media who covered Marino (and it probably says everything needed that most of them were working in 1982) think he was worthy of being the Steelers' top pick that year, even though they drafted an alcoholic who smashed himself into a paraplegic and were cursed with gibrones like Mark Malone, Scott Campbell, Cliff Stoudt and Steve Bono for a decade because they overlooked Marino. Yet THIS guy is a no-brainer top prospect.
Of course though, we all know how this is shaping up. He'll drop in the draft (cuz nobody else is as delusional as Pittsburghers), and the Steelers will snap him up in a middle round (cuz the Steelers can't resist drafting underachieving Nits). He'll become Ben's Heir Apparent. And the Great Legend of Hackenberg will continue in Pittsburgh. "He thrilled us at Penn State and now he's continuing as the next great Steelers quarterback!"
