Philly.com · Jan 20, 2017
Matt Ryan was always team-first, Penn Charter mates say
Matt Ryan was the best high school quarterback in Philadelphia in 2002. A scholarship waited at Boston College, and his size and ability would later make him one of the NFL's elite quarterbacks.
But with the Inter-Ac football championship on the line in the final game of the 2002 season, Penn Charter's coaches asked Ryan to hand the ball off.
Ryan was the compliant leader of a triple-option offense, which meant he attempted only 11 passes and totaled only 34 passing yards in a win over Germantown Academy to finish his high school career. He threw for 1,048 yards as a senior. What mattered to Ryan and his teammates was that they won eight of nine games.
