King was a 3rd year player in 2022

Loved seeing Haynes refuse to lose last night.
I know it's ridiculous, but I'd say Haynes is a better prospect than the Panthers' starter...

Yeah, wasn't that more of a case of we knew how insanely athletic and talented he was, so we put him in a position to get on the field immediately until he was ready to take over at qb?

Haynes King came in clutch and ran for the game winning touchdown in the first preseason game of 2026. He and Carson Beck put on offensive fireworks that resulted in 63 combined points, making it the second-highest scoring Hall of Fame Game in NFL history. It was the best Hall of Fame game I have ever watched.

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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I'm wondering if you have an opinion on what school or schools you think are the BEST ways to become an NFL quarterback.

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First path would be to find a coach/system with a history of getting QBs into the NFL. Texas Tech back in the day put QBs into the league with the asterisk of "they were system QBs". Regardless, they got their shot...

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He and Beck put on one hell of a show. Best HOF game I've ever watched. Sure it was against 2's and 3's but who cares. Football is back!

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Harsh. But fair.

It wasn't that long ago but I had to look it but Haynes King competed against Zach Calzada, Max Johnson and Connor Weigman for the starting job. Darrell Dickey (and specifically Jimbo since he made all the calls) offense squandered lots of talent at QB. Just saying.

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JamiesChallengeCard said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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The reality of this stings so bad. Our QB with the best NFL career we originally made a WR

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I don't think that's true. Tannehill was athletic enough to be able to play WR while biding his time to start at QB. It wasn't because staff didn't think he was good enough to play QB and moved him to WR.

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It's not true

Sherman recruited JFF to play QB. It seems he knew a few things about the position. The same coach that coached Ryan.

Mac Brown recruited JFF as DB. The best coach they have had in a long time messed that one up big time.

JamiesChallengeCard said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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The reality of this stings so bad. Our QB with the best NFL career we originally made a WR

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Seriously do you not remember that situation at all?

With the clock hitting zero it took me back to King vs Alabama where Jimbo drew up an our route to the short side of the field to the first pylon to Evan Stewart…

Glad this time King was able to make some magic happen

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It wasn't that long ago but I had to look it but Haynes King competed against Zach Calzada, Max Johnson and Connor Weigman for the starting job. Darrell Dickey (and specifically Jimbo since he made all the calls) offense squandered lots of talent at QB. Just saying.

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Really? What are you basing this 'squandered a lot of talent' statement on?

Calzada is playing in Europe because he couldn't even make an NFL training camp squad after completely washing out at Auburn and Kentucky after leaving A&M. When you fail to win the starting job at three different SEC programs, the problem is you, not the coaches.

Johnson is so talented, he's going into his seventh year of college football with his fourth team, now dropping down to the G6 level. He's another one who apparently doesn't have any pro prospects. After washing out at A&M, he washed out at North Carolina. When you're a backup at three different programs, the problem isn't the coaches, the problem is you.

Weigman will be the returning starter at Houston. He left A&M because he didn't want to compete with Marcel for the starting job. A player unwilling to compete is not the fault of the coaches. I'll also point out that Weigman's final season at A&M was under Bobby Petrino calling the plays, so you can't blame that on Jimbo or Dickey. Dickey wasn't even on the staff that year.

It never ceases to amaze me how people draw such ridiculous conclusions from a preseason game where both teams benched all starters and most of the 2nd stringers. Haynes looked good, and as always showed great leadership, but I would also argue that EVERY QB on the field last night performed very well.

not that much talent

let's not get carried away

they each had their moments, but also lots plenty of big and small games

I am glad Haynes is doing well. His throwing motion was horrible which affected timing routes. He obviously worked on that after he left.

I knew he was special when he won the Rail Shot Challenge!

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I'll give it to Jimbo. He was super high on Haynes and saw the potential even though the rest of fan base was down on him. Injury was his biggest challenge his time here and what caused him to get jumped on depth chart

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His biggest challenge here was finding a helmet that fit

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saw the thread title...and wondered if he had gotten thrown another year of eligibility interception

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Ok. So he's not the next Tom Brady. Maybe he doesn't even make an NFL roster.

So what? He played a nice game against better-than-college level players and I enjoyed watching it.

Probably be a great coach/motivator one day.

JamiesChallengeCard said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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The reality of this stings so bad. Our QB with the best NFL career we originally made a WR

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This is incorrect. Tannehill was going to be a backup. The coaches saw an opportunity to get him on the field as a WR. Tannehill agreed. He then came back at battled until he was the starter at QB.

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CowDog said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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I'm wondering if you have an opinion on what school or schools you think are the BEST ways to become an NFL quarterback.

My thought (without looking into data) is that there probably isn't a best path. Given the set of active NFL quarterbacks in any year is maybe 32*3? (Assuming each team carries 3 QBs on an active roster)

If thats more or less the number there are only 96 people in the world who are current NFL quarterbacks give or take.

32 of them would be QB1. I may be wrong, but I doubt any school or program has a preponderance of "producing" NFL quarterbacks.

As for the topic here, while I'm happy Haynes King showed well in the HOF game, and I hope he finds a way to have an NFL career, I guess I don't read TOO much into the HOF game....

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I made a sarcastic comment that I thought was funny. That was the extent of my thought process into my statement.

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It wasn't funny. It was wrong. And a hundred morons starred it.

Even more hilarious when you consider that one of the greatest college QB's of all time, who absolutely could have succeeded in the NFL had he not self imploded, was an Aggie.

Sofa King awesome!

Nah. It was funny.

You gotta lighten up. It's Just football. Quit taking it so personally.

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JamiesChallengeCard said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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The reality of this stings so bad. Our QB with the best NFL career we originally made a WR

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This is incorrect. Tannehill was going to be a backup. The coaches saw an opportunity to get him on the field as a WR. Tannehill agreed. He then came back at battled until he was the starter at QB.

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What he said was 100% correct. What you said does not make what he said wrong. Tangehill is our qb with the best nfl career. And we did not start him initially and had him play wr. Yes, he then played qb for us. It's a pretty blatant misjudgment of talent. If you know you had an nfl qb on your roster, you are never letting him play wr.

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Aginnebraska said:

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It wasn't that long ago but I had to look it but Haynes King competed against Zach Calzada, Max Johnson and Connor Weigman for the starting job. Darrell Dickey (and specifically Jimbo since he made all the calls) offense squandered lots of talent at QB. Just saying.

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Really? What are you basing this 'squandered a lot of talent' statement on?

Calzada is playing in Europe because he couldn't even make an NFL training camp squad after completely washing out at Auburn and Kentucky after leaving A&M. When you fail to win the starting job at three different SEC programs, the problem is you, not the coaches.

Johnson is so talented, he's going into his seventh year of college football with his fourth team, now dropping down to the G6 level. He's another one who apparently doesn't have any pro prospects. After washing out at A&M, he washed out at North Carolina. When you're a backup at three different programs, the problem isn't the coaches, the problem is you.

Weigman will be the returning starter at Houston. He left A&M because he didn't want to compete with Marcel for the starting job. A player unwilling to compete is not the fault of the coaches. I'll also point out that Weigman's final season at A&M was under Bobby Petrino calling the plays, so you can't blame that on Jimbo or Dickey. Dickey wasn't even on the staff that year.

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Calzada recently was playing in the Indoor Football League (IFL). He was the starting QB for the San Antonio Gunslingers. The IFL is considered the premier arena football league in the US.

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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CowDog said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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There's no better way to become an NFL quarterback than by transferring away from Texas A&M

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I'm wondering if you have an opinion on what school or schools you think are the BEST ways to become an NFL quarterback.

My thought (without looking into data) is that there probably isn't a best path. Given the set of active NFL quarterbacks in any year is maybe 32*3? (Assuming each team carries 3 QBs on an active roster)

If thats more or less the number there are only 96 people in the world who are current NFL quarterbacks give or take.

32 of them would be QB1. I may be wrong, but I doubt any school or program has a preponderance of "producing" NFL quarterbacks.

As for the topic here, while I'm happy Haynes King showed well in the HOF game, and I hope he finds a way to have an NFL career, I guess I don't read TOO much into the HOF game....

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I made a sarcastic comment that I thought was funny. That was the extent of my thought process into my statement.

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It wasn't funny. It was wrong. And a hundred morons starred it.

Even more hilarious when you consider that one of the greatest college QB's of all time, who absolutely could have succeeded in the NFL had he not self imploded, was an Aggie.

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Your Johnny point can easily be turned against you. One might wonder what a young Johnny could have accomplished in life had a group of enablers not allowed him to do whatever he wanted, as long as he showed up on Saturday. In other words, maybe transferring to another school that instilled discipline might indeed have been the best way to become an NFL quarterback…

LOL

Maybe the worst take on this thread

Humor me, and fight me about it. Why

This thread needs to be boob-nuked

JFF's issues were his own making. No college coach would have changed him. Yet you implied his issues were bc of the coaching at A&M.

Kingsberry was his OC, who also happened to be Mahomes OC. So they had the same coaching in college but one did nothing and another won multiple super bowls in the NFL.

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It wasn't funny. It was wrong. And a hundred morons starred it.

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148, thank you very much.

fightintxaggie10 said:

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I was awesome.

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I agree.

LB12MEEN said:

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JFF's issues were his own making. No college coach would have changed him. Yet you implied his issues were bc of the coaching at A&M.

Kingsberry was his OC, who also happened to be Mahomes OC. So they had the same coaching in college but one did nothing and another won multiple super bowls in the NFL.

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You sound like you are unfamiliar with mentorship, as a concept. Mahomes didnt need intervention from kingsberry because he wasn't a screwup- so cliff could just be a good play caller

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Yes, he then played qb for us. It's a pretty blatant misjudgment of talent. If you know you had an nfl qb on your roster, you are never letting him play wr.

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You wouldn't play one of your top players? He wasn't ready to start as a QB but contributed immensely to the team as a WR. You would forego those contributions?

He led the team in receptions, yds and tied for 2nd for TD's as a fish. Led the team in receptions, 2nd in yds and tied for 3rd in TD's as a sophomore.

Hindsight is 20/20 and you had no idea if he would've made it to the NFL as a QB.

That's kinda the point. Out coaching staff had no clue he was an nfl level talent at qb. If they thought that, no I would not play him at receiver. They did that because they did not think he was that kind of talent and thus weren't worried about him getting injured.

It all worked out, and I agree he was great at receiver. My only point was that it was somewhat concerning that they didn't realize the talent that they had.