STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The high school championships kept coming. The college offensive coaches were largely staying away.
Rick McSorley wanted his son, Trace, to understand why.
Rick saw Ryan Burns, who quarterbacked one of Trace's rival high schools in Ashburn, Virginia, become a coveted recruit in the 2013 class, before he signed with Stanford. At 6-foot-5 and 220 pounds, Burns "looked like a Redskins quarterback as a high school kid," Rick McSorley said. Similar things were said about another Virginia prep quarterback Christian Hackenberg, a 6-foot-4 flamethrower bound for Penn State whom ESPN rated as the nation's top pocket passer and No.