NFL draft prospect CJ Stroud got a big boost from Bryce Young during a key period in high school, helping Stroud gain the attention of Ohio State.
The guys who crown the next big thing at the most glamorous position in sports take their job quite seriously. To them, their annual“It’s ‘American Idol’ for high school quarterbacks,” says Yogi Roth, a Pac-12 Network analyst and formerBut even the organizers of the event will tell you — and this was certainly the case in summer 2019 — that a pecking order exists entering the weekend. It’s inevitable, a product of human nature, really.
Kimberly was so proud of her youngest of four for putting himself in this position after everything they’d endured the last few years, with CJ’s father freshly out of the picture. Coleridge Stroud was serving a 38-year sentence at Folsom State Prison, having pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping, robbery and carjacking while CJ was still in middle school.
At the Bay Area regional, CJ continued to perform at a high level in front of the Elite 11 kingmakers. But, while Southern California peers Uiagalelei andreceived their finals invites, Stroud was told he would have to wait to find out his fate until the evaluators finished one more regional the next week in Nashville.
Ohio State football quarterback C.J. Stroud runs a drill at the school’s NFL Pro Day in Columbus, Ohio on March 22. In 2019, their focus was on “emotional intelligence.” They wanted to create an environment in which the players would have to compete with one another but also be honest and respectful in their evaluation of their peers. They separated the players into four pods of five, and those groups would do everything together, just as a college team’s quarterbacks do. They would also vote on one another throughout the process.
CJ’s father couldn’t be there for him like Bryce’s dad, Craig Young, was every day, but Coleridge Stroud did leave his son with one piece of wisdom that was helpful that weekend. A minister in the years before his arrest, Coleridge would often tell CJ that “comparison is the thief of joy.”
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