Brock Purdy was a good enough high school quarterback to attract attention through the fall from several well regarded, if not top-tier, college programs.
During his senior season at Perry High School outside Phoenix, Purdy received scholarship offers from New Mexico State and U.N.L.V., which compete in so-called Group of Five conferences — in the same Football Bowl Subdivision as the major powers, but a rung below power leagues like the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten. In December, Boise State, the most successful Group of Five team of the past decade, asked Purdy to become a Bronco next fall.