Yahoo Sports: QB Focus: Matt Barkley, USC’s Mr. Nice Guy
Assessing 2011's field generals, in no particular order. Today: USC junior Matt Barkley.
• Typecasting. When scouts go to bed at night, Barkley is the prototype pocket passer they see in their dreams, across the board: He showed up at USC in 2009 as the No. 1 quarterback recruit in America, the latest and most celebrated product of the golden pipeline from nearby Mater Dei High and, within a few months of stepping on campus, the first true freshman in school history to start his first game. Before he even left high school, Barkley had already been on mission trips ...