Hardly any other player in college football impressed with the progress they had made between 2018 and 2019 quite like former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who has posted several solid performances for the Cincinnati Bengals on his rookie year.
SEC quarterback play has been up-and-down for the better part of the 2020 season thus far with a handful of standouts impressing within the conference, and we’ll get a chance to see some other signal-callers make their debut for the year in less than a week.
One of those in Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford, who makes a decent case for himself in making quite the jump in 2020. Of course, it’s difficult to parallel what Burrow did last year.
He’s in the history books for a reason, and he had the coaching staff and supporting cast to help pave the way to his storybook year.
Clifford has several pieces in place to get the job done and give a strong idea of where his ceiling lies this season as the Nittany Lions open competition against the Indiana Hoosiers on Saturday.
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