![]() ![]() His hands are massive, requiring 4XL-sized gloves. He's tall, at least 6'7" if you count his stringy hair sticking straight north. The silver Suburban pulls into a parking lot off South Water Street and out steps Pryor. I don't need to give my opinion on what I think I am, this and that. "I definitely believe I'm top-tier," Pryor says. Football runs in slow motion now because of that vantage point then. He knows he has unique talent and, because of his quarterbacking past, unique vision at receiver. He needs to be a star, not just a player. Pryor may have no choice but to find a new job, in a new profession, if things go wrong at his next stop.īut for now, he's too talented not to have a job…somewhere. Still, I connected with him via LinkedIn, and it's fitting he's on there. "Failure is not an option," he says, simply. That last question could hover over his head like a dark cloud forever because, well, the hype surrounding Pryor always seems to swell, deflate, swell, deflate.Ĭould it possibly deflate for good this offseason? Such dread never enters his mind. Wrapping an arm around his girlfriend, West Virginia women's basketball co-captain Chania Ray, he is the epitome of chill. In fact, he says, it's going to "pop fast" when free agency opens March 14. He speaks so nonchalantly, so coolly, and assures it won't take long at all to find a destination in free agency. Yet where you see questions, Pryor only sees answers. That's why Terrelle Pryor is a 6'4", 228-pound question mark to all 32 teams. After betting on himself with a one-year deal in Washington last year, he tore three ligaments in his right foot (including the deltoid ligament), suffered seven bone spurs, ankle damage and plenty of bloody cartilage when safety Cody Davis drilled him in the knee in Week 2. 1 question facing Pryor this precise moment. To wide receiver, where even during a 1,000-yard mic-drop of a season in 2016, opponents (like Pacman Jones) called him " garbage." Why all the hate? ![]() To the NFL, where he flashed then foundered at quarterback. He shredded Big Ten defenses and won a Rose Bowl but also became the official face of an NCAA scandal after selling Buckeyes memorabilia and receiving discounted tattoos. This all after being ranked the fifth-best basketball player in the country in seventh grade and gracing a magazine cover at 16 years old. The best recruit in Pennsylvania since Tony Dorsett, the kid who could throw the ball 65 yards and run a 4.4 recalls recruiters visiting his high school via helicopter. He pours hot sauce on his wings, gnaws away and the significance of it sinks in-that his view in that photo, and all of its implied pressure, is the one he's had his entire life.įrom the helicopters. A quarterback with a virtual bull's-eye on his back. ![]() The World. He's responsible for everyone and everything. ![]()
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