Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles shattered franchise passing numbers with his sophomore season, crushing the franchise record for touchdown passes in a season with 35 and breaking Mark Brunell's long standing passing yardage record. Bortles did all of this, allegedly while struggling to grasp an NFL playbook according to Dave Dameshek.
"From people within the organizaiton, I have been told there is some concern about Blake [Bortles]'s ability to grasp the NFL playbook," Dameshek said the Around the NFL podcast on Tuesday (h/t Reddit).
The first thing I did when I saw this in my inbox was laugh, because this is a rookie year leak story, not a he just ended second in the NFL in touchdown passes story.