2:30 PM ET When former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow won the Heisman Trophy last year, a trio of former Ohio State Buckeyes called each other to celebrate. Former quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator Tim Beck was in Texas at the time, driving home from dinner with his wife and daughter, when Cardale Jones called him. Beck then added another former Ohio State quarterback, J.T. Barrett, to the conversation on speakerphone. “Can you believe Joe just won the Heisman?!” Beck said to them. Before he became the record-setting, cigar-smoking, cocky but cool transfer quarterback who led LSU to a stunning 42-25 national championship game win over Clemson last season, Burrow was a relatively unknown freshman at Ohio State in 2015. He was a rookie in an already-packed quarterback meeting room with Barrett and Jones, two starters who had just won the 2014 national title, along with a star-studded supporting cast that…
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