KEITHEN MCCANT

Keithen McCant is a former who played three seasons in the with the and BC Lions. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the twelfth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. Wikipedia – Google.com

BORN: March 8, 1969

HEIGHT: 6′ 2″

WEIGHT: 210 lbs

COLLEGE: football

NFL DRAFT: 1992 (Round: 12 / Pick: 316)

POSITIONS: Quarterback

DRAFTED BY: Cleveland Browns

Those who remember the 1991 Nebraska football season will remember a quarterback coming out of nowhere to lead the Huskers to their first Big Eight title and birth since 1988.

Keithen McCant was a fifth-year senior who took over the starting QB job midway thru the first game of the season against Utah State and never gave it up.

Keithen McCant went on to being named first-team All-Big Eight and the conference's offensive player of the year, completing 57.7 percent of his passes for more than 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns, while rushing for more than 600 yards and seven touchdowns in his final year.

McCant was a dual-threat quarterback, but could pass the ball better than he could run it. At Grand Prairie High School located in the Dallas, Texas area, he was the offensive player-of-the-year in the his district in 1986, completing 72 of 161 passes for 1,500 yards and 18 touchdowns in leading his team to a district title.

McCant was recruited heavily by the now defunct Southwest Conference schools which included Texas, Texas A&M and SMU. Being from Texas, he of course seriously considered the instate schools, but surprisingly not the Texas Longhorns.

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"Back then Texas had the attitude of ‘You should come to Texas because of who we are.' That disappointed me and I really never considered them," McCant said. "But being a Texas kid, the Southwest Conference was the conference. I looked mostly at A&M because my cousin played there and SMU. SMU was my dream school and would have gone there but they were placed on the "death penalty" in 1987."

Nebraska at first was out of the picture until head coach and assistant coach gave him a call. Gill who starred at quarterback for the Huskers and was from nearby Fort Worth, Texas, convinced McCant to visit.

"After my visit I was impressed, and thought Nebraska would be a good place to go to school. I was one of the top coming out of high school. It was ironic because I never ran the option offense. My high school team threw the ball. But I went to Nebraska because of Coach Osborne and the school itself. I wanted to get a good education and they gave me that."

Even though the Huskers also recruited and signed , the nation's top option quarterback that year, McCant never wavered in his decision. "If you are a competitor, that shouldn't concern you. You are going to have competition anywhere you go."

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