WESTFIELD, Ind. – Bryce Young was still a wide-eyed middle schooler when a trip to a football camp at Texas Tech yielded an unexpected result.
The NFL’s 2023 first overall draft pick was just an eighth-grader at the time, but he famously departed Lubbock with a scholarship offer from Kliff Kingsbury, who was then the Red Raiders’ head coach.
It’s not a story totally unique to Young, either. The development of today’s young quarterbacks is trending younger all the time, with the proliferation of quarterback camps and with private quarterback coaching now common among elite high school passers.