The Russellville High football team hadn't had a top-notch quarterback in ten years, not since Eli Cranor. Since then, none had surpassed mediocrity, but Rock heard from retired track coach Don Carnahan that there was a Russellville junior high quarterback who had at times turned heads.
Rock and Carnahan met at a scrimmage and watched the young quarterback warm up. All of his passes looked crisp and on-target. "He has a nice arm," Rock said.
"Yes, he does," Carnahan said. "But wait until you see him in game action. He really struggles with consistency."
On the first play of the scrimmage, they watched him drop back and throw a ball that went nearly straight up, thirty yards or more. It fluttered and dropped into a mass of players perhaps five yards down field and was easily intercepted.
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