Sam Darnold the newly minted heir to the New York Jets throne, had a whirlwind college career filled with championships, MVPs, and headlines.
Joe Namath the most famous quarterback in Jets history, spent his college years setting records, winning a national title, and playing for arguably the greatest coach in Alabama Crimson Tide history, Bear Bryant.
Though before these two quarterbacks became leaders at their respective schools, they almost signed elsewhere.
For Namath it was the University of Maryland, where he accepted a scholarship offer yet failed to get an acceptance from the institution itself after failing to score high enough on their admission tests.