re: Who is the most forgotten QB in your school’s history...

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KJ Costello

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John Bond? I'm sure plenty remember. I know I do. Yall had the wishbone going on that day.

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Jordan Jefferson

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On the minds of all bama fans!

Dude I lost a bet

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Gabe Gross. Had a solid baseball career and his QB play defines forgettable

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I'd go with a different QB from that era for us, Jeff Klein.

I'm going with Mike Shula (who?)...

I'm gonna have to go with Steve Sloan. He played at Alabama with Namath and Stabler, started a lot of 1964 and just about all of 1965 - winning a national championship in the process. Yet no one really remembers him all that well.

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Ro was a hell of a QB. Think about him and Duece in Kiffen's offense.

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Hung out with Romaro at our tailgate for the game in 2019 in Oxford. Nice guy

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Jack Mildren definitely isn’t forgotten. The 1971 Oklahoma team is highly touted around here. He was also Oklahoma’s Lieutenant Governor from 1991-1995. He definitely made his mark here.

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Neither is Sam Bradford. My goodness, not even out of the state of Oklahoma.

Shout out to Mildren anyway. He and Greg Pruitt vs Jerry Tagge and Johnny Rogers in the "Game Of The Century" for the defacto NC. Just whoever had the ball last. Unfortunately, BAMA got the winner in the Orange Bowl and the Barners got Oklahoma.

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Technically I guess Tavaris Jackson. Transferred out after Matt Jones won the job but eventually played in the NFL for a while.

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Jackson was a very solid QB. A much better pure QB than Matt Jones. What Jones had going for him was that when the play broke down, and with Houston Nutt calling the offense the play almost always broke down, he was so gifted at pulling something out of his elongated backside to come up with something.

Whether it was one of the 80 yard TD runs where it looked like he was jogging the entire way or flinging the ball down field Jones was amazing at saving the day (and sometimes losing it) by making something out of nothing.

Jackson, as good as he was, did not have that magic "bail Houston Nutt out" ability that Jones did. Jackson, without Nutt as his HC, and at a decent program, had the ability to contend for a Heisman and put his team in the hunt for a national title. He just couldn't paper over all the cracks in the Arkansas offense like Jones could.

I bet a lot of people - including Auburn fans - don't remember who the Auburn QB was when we had Bo Jackson.

Pat Washington - one of the earliest starting black QBs in the SEC. He was a "game manager" dual threat guy who orchastrated Auburn's wishbone and option attack. Played some backup in our breakthrough 1983 season and we were ranked #1 early in both 1984 and 1985 with him as a starter before things fell part at the end of those seasons.