Three-hundred sixty-seven days ago, long before his Twitter account, right arm or brown mustache would draw thousands and thousands of followers, Gardner Minshew drafted a tweet on the eve of the 2018 NFL draft.
“365 days to prove why my name should get called! #NFLDraft2019,” he wrote.
Ten simple words from a quarterback whose career had constantly been derailed, but whose confidence was never bruised. How prophetic they were.
365 days to prove why my name should get called! #NFLDraft2019
— Gardner Minshew (@GardnerMinshew5) April 25, 2018
Minshew, the well-traveled quarterback who ventured to Washington State and broke a litany of passing records in his final college football season, was selected in the sixth round of the NFL draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars.