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When Florida State’s Jameis Winston and Oregon’s Marcus Mariota went 1-2 in the 2015 NFL draft to the Buccaneers and Titans, it didn’t take long for the comparisons to begin. They met in the 2015 season opener.
Mariota won it in a blowout. The second pass of his NFL career was a 52-yard touchdown to Kendall Wright (yes, that Kendall Wright). Winston’s first pass was intercepted by Coty Sensabaugh and returned 26 yards for a touchdown and the Titans led 14-0 less than four minutes into the game.