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Meet the blue-chip QB with zero starts and all of the hype

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. -- As a freshman at Bishop Gorman High in Las Vegas, Dorian Thompson-Robinson watched as a sophomore quarterback took over the starting role of the varsity team in such decisive fashion that he instinctively thought about leaving the state.

"It's going to be a long haul," he remembers telling himself. "I'm not going to play behind this dude."

So long as Tate Martell -- No. 127 in the Class of 2017, eventually signing with Ohio State -- was at Gorman, Thompson-Robinson wouldn't be a starting quarterback, and two years was a long time to wait for a player with big-time college aspirations.