A day after Christmas last year, Drew Lock was still processing the truth: He wasn’t ready to play at the next level, at least not according to NFL Draft Advisory Committee.
The Missouri quarterback was sitting in a conference room in a downtown Houston hotel when he shared the news with reporters before the Texas Bowl. Despite Lock throwing for 44 touchdowns as a junior while keying a six-game winning streak to save his coach’s job, the board thought he needed another season at MU.
A gifted athlete since elementary school, Lock was able to handle a 120-play playbook in middle school and had the likes of Michigan, Tennessee and Ohio State all recruiting him long after he committed to Missouri out of Lee’s Summit High School.