The Pac-12 Conference is loaded with talented quarterbacks. Oregon’s Bo Nix and Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. are just two of them and they share some similarities.
, throwing for 4,641 yards and 31 TDs as the Huskies finished 11-2 and won their final seven games.
“Whatever decision I made, I didn’t want to make no regrets,” Penix said. “I feel like coming back was definitely something that was special for me to allow me to develop a little bit more and continue to help this team win football games.”in the final season of the Pac-12 – a last salvo for the conference that has produced so many great quarterbacks throughout its history.
And that’s just the top of the pecking order and doesn’t include Cam Ward , Shedeur Sanders or five-star freshman Dante Moore, expected to be the starter at UCLA.from the others – aside from their age and college experience – is that decision to return. Even in a quarterback-rich draft last April that saw QBs taken with three of the first four picks, Penix and Nix likely would have heard their names called on the second or early on the third day.
And there’s NIL compensation. While not a major factor in their decisions to stay, the fact both Nix and Penix have name, image and likeness endorsement deals mean in this age players don’t have to rush immediately to the NFL to have some financial security.
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