Haskins was a hell of a college quarterback and established all kinds of OSU single-season passing records. Yes, Burrow won a National Championship, but at the time, he clearly wasn’t beating out Barrett. You know the story and where we stand currently, but hindsight being 20/20, I still don’t think the situation plays out any differently. There is hope that he can carve out a career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but we’re 0-for-3 here, when it comes to the 2017 QB’s who played their most significant snaps with the Buckeyes. Haskins, like Martell, was plagued by questions about his work ethic, maturity, and so on, and he made plenty of missteps on his own. The current Washington Football Team thought they were getting a steal, only to regret their pick within a few seasons. Haskins parlayed one fantastic season into a high draft pick, but the beginning of his NFL career has been reminiscent of Martell’s collegiate odyssey. Yes, Joe Burrow, the potential NFL Comeback Player of the Year and destroyer of the Cincinnati Bengals’ 31-year playoff victory drought. Haskins was the backup to Barrett during that 2017 season, and played ahead of Burrow. It’s crazy to think that Barrett peaked in relevancy in 2017, but I think he should be appreciated for decades to come.
He was not the quarterback of record during OSU’s 2014 CFP run, and his professional career amounted to nothing. Stroud have obliterated most of his single-game and single-season records. Now he’s an afterthought for many college football fans. When he graduated, there were fans and media types who believed that Barrett should be considered the greatest quarterback in Ohio State history. He’ll likely remain in the top-5 of countless statistical categories which measure QB performance and success for quite some time. Barrett finished his career as one of the most accomplished Buckeye quarterbacks to ever do it. Think about the divergent paths that all of these other players took. Can we petition for a 30 For 30-style documentary? Even then, I would want all the men who lived it to be involved. It would take much more than a single blog to capture it all. Martell is only one of the characters in this story! Three other quarterbacks - all ahead of him in the pecking order at Ohio State - have gone on to lead completely different, unique football lives. Hopefully Tate makes his own, and finds success off the field. Most of us don’t know anything about the kid, so to say he failed or quit, is not our statement to make. It’s time for him to move on, and so should we.
In my opinion, he was the first “social media football player” - created, bantered about, cancelled, resurrected, and retired, all behind the computer screen or smartphone. Unfortunately, that is where Martell was hyped up, dumped on, and everything in between. His retirement was announced on social media, because of course it was. Instead, Martell never got a chance to lead any of his teams to victory, and he is now out of the game he presumably once loved.
And people were interested in him - hoping that he either fell flat on his face, or won games at the same rate he did at Bishop Gorman High School. He seemed like a mixture of fictional character Johnny Walker ( Johnny Be Good, 1988) and the real-life Johnny Manziel. It grew smaller and smaller by the year, but there were people who followed his career dating back to his Netflix days. But Martell went through the ringer in front of an audience. There are tons of mega-recruits who get chewed up and spit out by college football. I personally believe that his lack of success was due to a combination of factors, but the end result was a real bummer. Whether it was talent, ego, maturity, lack of support, or an aversion to hard work, college football just never worked out for Martell. Turns out, he was floundering at UNLV – close to home – after a failed pursuit of relevancy at Miami. I think most people had assumed that Martell gave up football a few years ago. which is odd, because I’m not sure an announcement was necessary. I would also keep an eye on what tate has going on business wise, it's about to blow up.- Joe Arrigo January 18, 2022įor those keeping track of Martell’s career at home (and I’m sure there are tons of you), the former record-setting high school quarterback and Gatorade Player of the Year recently announced his retirement from football. He is grateful for and UNLV for giving him a chance.
I wanted to give an update on #UNLVfb QB He is retired from football and focusing on business ventures.