Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
ATLANTA — Mozart was composing music at 5. Sergey Karjakin became a chess grandmaster at 12. Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator as a teenager. And Sean McVay led the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl at 33.
One of those four does not really qualify as a prodigy. But that has not stopped virtually everyone in the football world from throwing the word around in the last few weeks in reference to McVay, a second-year head coach who has become the toast of the N.F.L. in the lead-up to Super Bowl LIII.