Max Browne spent four years at USC constantly competing for the starting quarterback job, with mixed results at best. The big-armed 21-year-old will get one last shot 2,500 miles away.
Sure, it's not quite the way Browne expected his college career to go. Yet standing inside the Pittsburgh complex on Friday wearing a blue polo shirt — a decided departure from USC's cardinal and gold — Browne was hardly complaining. He'll spend the next year working on his master's degree in customer insights and trying to win with Coach Pat Narduzzi and the Panthers.