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USC freshmen look good together

This summer, as Steve Daniels and John Brown discussed their sons’ football prowess and chemistry as quarterback and wide receiver in separate interviews with The Times, it was hard not to be at least a little skeptical. These were proud dads, after all.

But even if you chose to ignore the praise they heaped on their sons in the name of fatherly bias, there was more likely to be some truth tucked into what each was willing to say about the other guy’s son.

“He’s a mad scientist kind of guy,” Brown said of quarterback JT Daniels.