For those that have forgotten the name Jameill Showers, he finished his college football career at UTEP. He transferred there after failing to win the starting job at Texas A&M. He lost out to a small-town kid that nobody had ever heard of at the time: Johnny Manziel. The rest is history, at least where Manziel is concerned.
Showers has since moved on. Unlike Manziel, he’s still int he NFL and playing for the Dallas Cowboys. If he does get on the field in 2017 it won’t be at quarterback. Showers told DallasCowboys.com that he and head coach Jason Garrett had discussed him making a position change to safety:
I’m excited about it.