Absolutely, extremely charismatic with excellent leadership skills; someone a bunch of young kids can get behind. Then off to the pros where you can boost morale to an extent but then you have veterans and coaches eye-rolling the decision making and “wtf” throwing motion.
Never stood a chance.
His throwing motion is one of the oddest I've seen. And he's not much better throwing a baseball.
Yeah, his high school and college coaches did him a huge disservice by not fixing that throwing motion. He would have been fine back when the emphasis was more on the run game and a QB might only be passing 15-20 times a game.