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WSJ: University of Washington's Husky football has a 'Jake Problem'

The Wall Street Journal dug in on the prolifery of the name "Jacob," and the University of Washington's Huskies football team was their case study.

As the Journal notes, Jacob was the most popular boys name in the 2000s by a long shot, and now the football team is dealing with the repercussions of that: The Huskies bench has four quarterbacks, alone, named Jake or Jacob.

That's before you even get to linebacker and tight end also going by Jake or Jacob.

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Which is something to be expected when your name was the most popular in the U.