EUGENE -- In the mid-2000s, when Chris Miller was the director of Kidsports, a youth athletics organization in Eugene, he watched thousands of athletes play in hundreds of games.
But one day the former Oregon Ducks quarterback who later played 10 NFL seasons saw a fourth-grader make a play that shocked him.
The kid was Justin Herbert.
"I watched him roll to the left on the Kidsports field, flip his hips and rip one across the field about 30 to 35 yards on a line," Miller said. "When I saw him make that throw I thought, oh man, we've got to keep track of this kid.