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Titans invite former Memphis QB Brady White to Rookie Minicamp

The Titans have invited Memphis quarterback Brady White to rookie minicamp.

The Tennessee Titans have invited former Memphis quarterback Brady White to rookie minicamp, according to a report from Justin Melo of The Draft Network.

White is one of a handful of quarterbacks to both go undrafted and fail to get an undrafted free agent deal, but he’s still undoubtedly the best quarterback in the history of the program after transferring from Arizona State.

White finished out his career with the Tigers with 10,690 passing yards and 97 total touchdowns. His overall record was 28-11 overall, 19-1 record in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

The quarterback leaves a legacy, leading Memphis to the AAC Championship Game two times and helping the team win the conference title in 2019.

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Memphis also made it to its first-ever New Year’s Six Bowl in 2019 with White at the helm.

It seems to have been a trend over recent years for the Titans to bring in a rookie quarterback to join Logan Woodside behind the starter, though it always seems that it always ends up being Woodside at QB2.

It will be interesting to see if the Titans choose to keep White on roster as a QB3 or if they stick with just Tannehill and Woodside at the position in 2021.

The top sleepers on offense in the 2021 NFL draft

Drafts produce sleepers. On the offensive side of the football players like Brady White, Jaelon Darden and Spencer Brown are contenders.

The power of the fully operational “Draft Industrial Complex” has perhaps led to the death of one of draft season’s best aspects:

The sleepers.

With scouts and media members working around the clock, around the calendar year, to scout and identify talent it is harder and harder to find those true diamonds in the rough. After all, we all know that once the 2021 NFL draft draws to a close, the process will start almost immediately for the 2022 cycle. That means almost a full calendar year of watching players. Given the sheer number of people now covering the draft in some capacity, sooner or later everyone will get around to watching that small school quarterback from a Division 2 school that truly has the ability to make all the throws.

Still, there are some players on the offensive side of the football that for whatever reason have not gotten a ton of coverage this cycle. To that end, here are the top sleepers on offense in the 2021 NFL draft.

2021 NFL draft: Brady White handling boundary pressure

Boundary pressure is tough for any QB to handle, but in the 2019 AAC Championship game Memphis quarterback Brady White handled it perfectly.

Boundary pressure is one of the toughest aspects to playing quarterback for any athlete to handle. You’re at the line of scrimmage, focusing on the defensive front, the alignment of the safeties, and all the thousands of other things that you need to account for, and miss the fact that the cornerback is  getting ready to blitz you from the outside.

Back during his draft process Deshaun Watson was critiqued along these lines, and many evaluators were worried about his ability to attack to the sidelines and were concerned about how he responded to boundary pressure packages. It led to this piece from years ago that is worth a look.

That’s why these two plays from Memphis quarterback Brady White in the 2019 AAC Championship game were fascinating to study. They offer clear examples of Brady White handling boundary pressure:

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White is an interesting prospect this draft cycle. He might be limited schematically, and projects best to a West Coast offense. He is an older prospect, who will be 25 around the time his rookie season begins. But for teams looking for a developmental prospect on the third day of the draft, and who use such an offense, he might be a perfect fit.

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Memphis 26, Florida Atlantic 10: Montgomery Bowl 10 Things To Know

Memphis 26, Florida Atlantic 10. The 10 ten things you need to know about the Memphis win over Florida Atlantic in the Montgomery Bowl

Memphis 26, Florida Atlantic 10. The 10 ten things you need to know about the Memphis win over Florida Atlantic in the Montgomery Bowl.

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Memphis 26, Florida Atlantic 10: Montgomery Bowl

10. Florida Atlantic got really, really close to making this interesting. It had plenty of chances to come up with late scores, but the Memphis defense held on a goal line stand, came up with a pick in the final minutes, and the 25-10 score looked a wee bit worse than it actually was. Emphasis on the word wee, because …

9. Okay, Memphis should’ve made this a blowout. The Tigers outgained the Owls 469 yards to 290 and had several opportunities to pull away further, but three turnovers – the conditions weren’t perfect, to be fair – made this a wee bit dramatic, at least for those who sat through the entire game.

8. The American Athletic Conference DESPERATELY needed this. Memphis was around a double-digit favorite depending on where you choose to invest, but after Tulane and UCF lost their respective bowls in ugly fashion the day before, and with Houston expected to miss around 20 players for its date with Hawaii the day after the Montgomery Bowl, the league couldn’t afford another clunker.

7. Memphis wasn’t great, but it got the job done. It was a business-like effort, it got up early, and there wasn’t any real drama. However, give the Tigers credit for making the key plays to prevent FAU from getting into a position for there to be any real drama.  It also helped that …

6. The Tiger offense and got out of a few jams. It managed to go on a few long drives when needed to keep the momentum on its side – Memphis had an 18-0 lead at halftime – and rumbled late with a few good runs to close it out. The ground game averaged over five yards per carry and finished with 185 yards against the solid Owl D.

5. That’s the Florida Atlantic offense. It it struggled all year, only scoring against the truly awful defenses. The running game wasn’t awful – James Charles ran for 82 yards – but Nick Tronti isn’t the type of quarterback who’ll bomb away for 300 yards. He completed 16-of-32 passes for 146 yards with a touchdown and a pick, and he ran for 33 yards, but there were a few plays that didn’t click that could’ve been gamechangers.

4. Willie Taggart still hasn’t won a bowl game. It’s one of the stranger trivia tidbits considering all of his success, but he left WKU for USF just before a bowl, lost his one bowl appearance at USF and left before the second, and he left Oregon for Florida State before the 2017 Las Vegas Bowl. Those wins will come – he’s a master of rebuilding programs – and this year’s team had to undergo an overhaul.

3. It might not have been an American Athletic Conference championship season under Ryan Silverfield, and Memphis might not have played in a New Year’s Six game, but it’s a bowl win for the program for the first time since taking out BYU in the 2014 Miami Beach, and it’s the second win in the last nine tries going back to 2005. The Tigers ended this year winning five games in the last six in an interesting run.

2. Defense hasn’t really been a thing around Memphis football over the years, but up 25-10, it had to hold on after a fumble that led to FAU getting down to the Tiger 3. It did, coming up with a 4th-and-1 stop. With just over four minutes to play, Memphis got an interception by Thomas Pickens at the goal line to finish allowing just 290 yards of total FAU offense and ten points.

1. Brady White was a strong recruit for Arizona State, threw 49 passes, and left for Memphis. All he did in his Tiger career was throw for 10,690 yards and 90 touchdowns, and for his entire college experience, he threw for 10,949 yards to close out as the 73rd all-time yardage leader in passing. After this game, he passed up Marcus Mariota, Matt Leinart, Danny Wuerffel and Ben Roethlisberger on the all-time NCAA yardage list.

He led the way to an American Athletic Conference championship, a Cotton Bowl appearance, and another trip to the AAC title game. He was fine, throwing for 284 yards and three touchdowns with a pick in his final game, leading the Tigers to an eight-win season and a bowl victory.

Not bad.

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ESPN compares Notre Dame commit Buchner to who?

The future Irish quarterback is compared to a current star in college.

The Elite 11 Camp has come and gone, with recruiting experts getting a chance to go over the film, the future for each of the participants has become clearer. A pair of Tom’s from ESPN, Luginbill and VanHaaren broke down each of the quarterbacks and 2021 Irish commit Tyler Buchner got some high praise from them.

The opportunity for early playing time for Buchner is there, as they noted, but what was more important was how the Tom’s see the future for the star QB. Their report on him is very encouraging, as Luginbill see’s “Buchner has good size and a high skill set. He can navigate the pocket, keep his eyes downfield and work through progressions. For a younger player, he is an advanced passer with a lot of poise.”

The player comparison was a surprise, as I haven’t heard much about Memphis’ Brady White, so I did some research. White was 4th nationally with 4,014 passing yards last year to go along with 33 passing touchdowns and 11 interceptions. The Tiger’s star was 10th nationally in quarterback rating, just a little behind Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence who is viewed as a Top 3 NFL Draft pick. White helped the Tigers to a 12-2 record last year, a New Year’s Six appearance in the Cotton Bowl, although they lost to Penn State, it was one hell of a year for White.

White began his career at Arizona State, but then transferred to Memphis where he has put video game numbers in his two seasons as their quarterback. The wins came last year, as the Tigers finished 8-6 in his first season, but the build up was worth it. If Buchner has a career like White’s, many Irish fans will be very happy with that result.