New Phillies reliever Archie Bradley faced the toughest decision of his career at the age of 18. Many MLB draftees have to make the choice to forgo a college education for professional baseball, but Bradley’s dilemma carried more weight.
In June of 2010, Bradley verbally committed to play quarterback and pitch for the Oklahoma Sooners. Shortly after that, he attended the Elite 11 camp, a four-day event in Southern California featuring the best high school quarterbacks from around the country. Bradley competed alongside the likes of Teddy Bridgewater, Jeff Driskel and Cody Kessler with the hopes of picking up a few things from a group of college QB camp counselors that included Kirk Cousins, Andy Dalton, Blaine Gabbert and Tyrod Taylor.