First, a brief explanation, stolen entirely from Wikipedia:
Sam McGuffie starred as a high school running back for Cy-Fair High School in Cypress, Texas, where he rushed for a total of 5,847 yards in 699 total carries and scored 83 touchdowns. Those numbers include a junior season in which he carried the ball 358 times for 3,121 yards and also scored 44 touchdowns. Sam was known to “hurdle his opponents” when they tried to tackle him. He was very elusive when he ran with the football. McGuffie's stellar career at high school garnered a lot of attention from college football scouts. He was voted the tenth-best running back in the country by Scout.com. McGuffie was also rated a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, who also ranked him as the ninth-best running back in the nation. He was heavily recruited by USC, Notre Dame, Cal, Michigan, and Texas A&M. He decided to go to Michigan, and Michigan fans were STOKED. Somewhere out there in the depths of YouTube, there is a highlight video for Sam McGuffie, and watching him in high school, you'd think the dude was a combination of Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Michigan fans like myself thought we had a freaking STUD, a guaranteed future Heisman winner, I mean this dude was just incredible... But, unless you live in either the state of Michigan or Texas, chances are, you never heard of him. During his freshman year with the Wolverines, he suffered 3 concussions. He opted to transfer to Rice, and while he had some moderate success, he ended up undrafted. His entire NFL experience consisted of training camps for the Raiders, Cardinals and Patriots, and in 2014, he was a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the CFL, but never got off the bench...4 professional teams, and he never stepped on to the field for any of them in a game that counted. Now, it isn't all doom and gloom, McGuffie is a very talented track and field star, and was a member of the Team USA Bobsled team at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongyang, South Korea... But, as college football fans, we all have that one guy, who we just knew was going to be the best damn player in the nation coming in, and for some reason or another, things just didn't work out. Maybe they got hurt, maybe they just weren't as good as advertised, maybe they got into legal trouble, whatever... Who is your Sam McGuffie?
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