On Friday afternoon, in a small room circled shoulder-to-shoulder by some of the biggest names in college football, Georgia quarterback Jacob Eason sat just to the right of Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts.
Eason rushed for minus-45 yards last year.
Hurts rushed for 954 yards last year.
“That’s the cool thing about football, is that every guy has their own skill set,” Eason said during the media session of the annual Manning Passing Academy at Nicholls State University. “I think that’s cool to see the wide range of different quarterbacks.”
There are more and more Hurts and fewer and fewer Easons in college football, and one of the reasons is that Eason’s Bulldogs finished 8-5 last year while Hurts helped the Crimson Tide reach the national title game.