A player who struggled to win the starting job at Northwestern has assumed the role of replacing a legend and quarterbacking the reigning NFL champs—and so far, it’s worked. Here’s the NFL’s most unlikely success story of 2016
EVANSTON, Ill. – For Trevor Siemian, a quarterback with NFL dreams and a thin football résumé, the 2014 season was precisely what he’d been waiting for since he enrolled at Northwestern. After a redshirt season and then two years platooning with team leader and regular starter Kain Colter, Siemian was handed the starting job—and the chance to prove he belonged in the 2015 NFL draft.