The elite college football players depart for the NFL after two to three years. What are some names that stuck around seemingly forever?
Unlike professional sports, collegiate athletics has a much shorter window of opportunity to make an impact. While many of the best spend a short amount of time in college, some stay for all four years.
Transfers, redshirt seasons and other circumstances certainly have a factor in how long a player remains in college. Eternity lasts forever, but there are some current and former college football players that seem like they have been in college for that long.
Here is a list of 10 players, many who affected college football and seemingly have been in college football for what has felt like a lifetime.
10. Jake Browning, Washington
Jake Browning, now entering his senior season as the quarterback of Washington, leads a prolific passing attack. In his final year of college, Browning will surely look ahead to spearheading a Huskies’ trip to the College Football Playoff, possibly to avenge its postseason loss to Alabama in 2016.
The Huskies are in a good position to return to postseason play given they are the highest preseason ranked Pac-12 team in the nation.
Browning is on pace to become the best passer in Washington football history. In what feels like a lengthy college career, in fact, is. The strong-armed passer has practically started every game since his freshman year and has amassed 9,104 passing yards and 78 touchdown passes in just three seasons.
His passing touchdown total places him on the top of the charts in that category out of all Huskies’ quarterbacks and in 2018, he will be chasing Cody Pickett for the most career passing yards in program history.
Currently, he trails Pickett by 1,116 passing yards, however, given the numbers Browning has posted over the last three years, he shouldn’t have any problems eclipsing that threshold.