Heading into this year’s NFL draft Alex Tanney‘s name wasn’t frequently mentioned by Mel Kiper, Todd McShay, and Mike Mayock. That doesn’t mean he was an unknown commodity. Tanney gained YouTube fame thanks to this video. But Alex is more than just the “Trick Shot Quarterback”. In 2011 the Monmouth College signal [...]
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