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brush

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Sun Dec 9, 2018, 09:02 AM Dec 2018

Is there a trend in football now, the 3 final Heisman candidates... [View all]

were all black, mobile quarterbacks? Cunningham and Vick were the forerunners followed by Kaepernick, RG3 and Wilson and now Watson and Mahomes are the new young guns.

My question is, do they represent the prototype for future NFL quarterbacks or will the football landscape follow the pattern of what happened in baseball where black stars, once the game opened up with Jackie Robinson in the late 40s, flourished in the 50s, 60s, 70s and on into the 80s but were overtaken by the growing influx of Latinx players (although there haven't been many Latinx qbs)?

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