The last picture on the field of Cam Ward as a college quarterback was his rejection to play the second half of Pop-Tarts Bowl for Miami after setting a Division I record for most careers Touchdown pass during the first half.
This topic was brought up to Ward on Monday night when he was in Fort Worth, Texas, to formally accept the Davey O’Brien award as the country’s best quarterback. He brushed on the proposal that he ended in the hurricanes and does not want to hear that question from any NFL team that is considering choosing him near the top of 2025 NFL draft.
“Ok, you will either work out or you are not,” Ward told Associated Press. “If you don’t prepare me, that’s your fault. You have to remember that you are the same team that has to play me the rest of my career, and I remember it.”
Ward threw three touchdown passes during the first half against Iowa State to raise his career a total of 158. Miami led 31-28 when Ward went but eventually lost 42-41 to Iowa State.
Ward insists that the only reason for his half -time departure is a big thing is that Miami lost the game.
“If we had won the match, they wouldn’t have said nothing,” Ward said. “And so that’s usually how it goes. And you know, you just have to take it on your chin and just keep pressing.”
Perhaps Ward has a point since bowl games has become the most meaningless in this era. But he played in the first place – long enough to get the record.
How he talks about the situation can also lead the NFL team about how he will deal with negative issues, which will be fired in his direction throughout his career.
The 2024 season was the lonely a department played for Miami. He passed for 4,313 meters and 39 touchdowns against seven intercepts and ended up in fourth place in Heisman Trophy Balloting.
Ward played two seasons on the FCS program Incarnate Word and two in Washington State before moving on to Miami.
Ward and Colorado’s Seedeur Sanders are the two best quarter slopes available in the draft by 2025.
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