About 50 miles northwest of Hollywood, not long after Sam Darnold ended an exhausting session as the star of the Pac-12 Conference’s media days, a quarterback offered a ball up into the swirling winds of Ventura.
A receiver sprinted underneath and caught it for a touchdown.
“OK!” a teammate yelled from the sideline at the quarterback. “OK, I see you Ricky Town!”
Stripped of context, Town’s presence here would not be considered abnormal, and it would not qualify his career as a bust. He’d committed to Alabama but flipped to USC, then transferred less than two weeks into training camp, to Arkansas.