“He’s a savant. That’s the only way I can say it.” That’s how Tee Martin, quarterbacks coach for the Baltimore Ravens, described Ravens’ quarterback Lamar Jackson in a Washington Post interview from earlier this year.
Well, of course Jackson is a savant. Even on the high school level, the quarterback position is incredibly cerebral, and requires the individual to make all manner of split second reads while on the run, with frequently bigger opponents trying to hurt him. Imagine the immense, multiple-phone book (look it up...), split-second knowledge required to quarterback a team in the NFL.
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