Sam Howell has been a quarterback since first grade. His father told him then that to play the position he needed to be the leader of the team, and that more would be expected of him than other players, both on the field and off.
Howell, coming off a record-breaking freshman season at North Carolina, has come to think of quarterback as a lifestyle. “I know everyone’s looking at me,” Howell said.
Evaluating and projecting quarterbacks at any level is probably the most challenging part of building a football team. More so than any other position, what makes a quarterback successful is almost impossible to measure or quantify.