You know the story well by now. Kid comes out of a small school in Athens, Ohio to the big-time college known as Ohio State. He was a solid recruit, but not didn’t exactly have the blue-bloods of the sport shaking in their cleats. He got stuck behind a couple pretty good quarterbacks in Columbus. First J.T. Barret, then couldn’t surpass Dwayne Haskins during the spring of 2018.
Joe Burrow is his name. He then backed the U-Haul up to campus in Baton Rouge as a graduate transfer, got his feet wet, earning the starting nod for LSU in 2018 before absolutely blowing up this past season.
Burrow went from a rural, southern Ohio to Ohio State backup, to a Heisman winner holding a national championship trophy. He then capped it all off by becoming the first selection in the 2020 NFL Draft Thursday night.
It is a unique story, but not one that is completely new — at least as far as transferring, then becoming the first pick in an NFL draft. In fact, there are six total signal-callers that accomplished that feat. Thanks to Touchdown Wire and the research they’ve done, we’ve got all six for you.
6 quarterbacks who became the No. 1 overall pick after transferring colleges https://t.co/mwOmIdl3yu
— Touchdown Wire (@TheNFLWire) April 24, 2020
Those six in addition to Joe Burrow are: