C. J. Stroud has taken the NFL world by storm after the Houston Texan took him with the No. 2 overall pick in the draft. He is simply playing like a veteran and leading the Texans to an improbable playoff push after the team went 2-15 the previous season.
Many naturally assumed that he would not be good for various reasons. The reason was that a long list of Ohio State quarterbacks had come into the league and failed.
Julian Edelman was one of them.
On Thursday, the retired NFL wide receiver issued an apology to the star quarterback for not trusting his qualities coming into the league:
“I want to apologize to C. J. Stroud, because as soon as he got drafted, I’m sitting there looking like ‘another Ohio State quarterback, we [have] already seen this a few times.’ Because when you play at a school, and you have the best player, it’s hard to evaluate that position. When you have the best receiver in the country going against Louisiana-Lafayette of the tech industry, a couple of weeks of the year.
“So, you know, it was very surprising to me, but they’ve done a good job of keeping things simple. They’ve done a good job with the play caller-to-quarterback relationship where, yes, it seems like he always knows where to go with the football.”
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Edelman was hardly the only Stroud skeptic prior to the draft. The Texans rookie was the subject of some negative reports and faced questions about poor test scores.
He has simply shut people up through ten weeks of the season. Through nine games, he has thrown for 2,626 passing yards, 15 touchdowns, and just two interceptions, and the Texans are a surprising 5-4 because of it.
Stroud has a real chance of getting his team two games above .500 when they face off against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at NFL Stadium.
