ON TRACE McSORLEY Last year, obvi-
ously, Saquon Barkley got a lot of atten-
tion, but a lot of coaches you talk to say,
yeah, Saquon Barkley was a very, very
special player, but it started and ended
with the quarterback. He made it all go.
There are a lot of good coaches in our
league. You could make an argument
[that it's] maybe the best in the country.
There's a lot of respect for Trace univer-
sally. [The Iowa game] was a really good
example of that. He got banged up a little
bit, he went down, and it was like there
was no oxygen le< in the stadium. The
whole stadium took a deep breath, and
then when he came out of that tent and
started jogging around, that moment
probably tells the story.
But I would say actually the fact that
he's been playing this long and there have
been very few times when he's even laid
on the :eld in the :rst place [speaks to]
the way he's been able to develop because
of his toughness, because he never misses
practice, the way he's been able to de-
velop because of how he takes care of his
body, how much sleep he gets at night.
He's never cramped. And I know these
things sound small, but it's because of his
sleep and because of his nutrition and
because of his hydration. Because he does
all those things right allows him to prac-
tice at a high level every single day with-
out losing time.
And the reality is that if you're not liv-
ing right in every one of those areas, it's
going to come back to haunt you at some
point. One of those areas is going to catch
up to you, and it's going to limit your de-
velopment. Trace is a guy who is willing
to make all those choices day a
