Huddle Up is a weekly Q&A with a Cardinals player on an off-field topic. In this week’s installment, quarterback Matt Barkley talks about what life was like as the No. 1 high school football recruit in the country for the class of 2009.
Question: Do you remember when a college reached out to you for the first time?
Answer: Yeah, it was my freshman year in high school, after the season. It was a small school up in Washington, like Whitworth or something. That was the first letter, and I was like, ‘A college is interested in me?