A lot of things had to go right for Bagent, but the tenacious worker always had faith: 'Yeah, oddly, I always thought it was gonna happen.'
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Like a lot of young quarterbacks, dreamed of making the . And now that he’s made it, he can safely say it was fate. “Yeah, oddly, I always thought it was gonna happen,” Bagent said Wednesday in his first midweek press conference as a starting quarterback in the NFL. “Me and my dad really were the only ones that thought that this was gonna happen.
According to Pro Football Reference, Bagent will be the first person born in West Virginia to start at quarterback in the NFL since Joe Gilliam Jr., who started seven games for the in 1973-74. But Gilliam, who was born in Charleston while his father played at West Virginia State, grew up in Tennessee. Bagent is born and bred. There haven’t been many other NFL quarterbacks from the state , and most of the ones who have actually thrown a pass predate the term “quarterback.
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