Whicker: Freshman QBs aren’t often plug-and-play, even USC’s JT Daniels

Cincinnati released Matt Barkley on Wednesday.
Ohio was much kinder to him, nine years ago.
Barkley was USC’s first-year freshman quarterback, from Mater Dei. Pete Carroll thrust him inside the Ohio State horseshoe, in front of 106,033 of the most unmerciful fans in America.
It was no country for young men, and Barkley had turned 19 five days before. Yet he gathered the offense with the same no-problem smile that we see from Mike Trout. He took USC on a late-night drive, six minutes and 10