Mac Jones arrived on the New England football scene this past April as the No. 15 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to the QB-needy Patriots.
The former Alabama star is now the starting quarterback for Bill Belichick’s team and a rising star on the Boston sports landscape.
But Jones could have apparently taken a very different path to the Boston sports world.
Back in 2016, when Jones was preparing for his collegiate career coming out of The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Fla., he got a scholarship offer from Boston College.
Based on Jones’ tweet from February 2016, he could have pursued his college and NFL dreams at The Heights. He could have been a household name in New England long before 2021.
Now, no disrespect to the Eagles, but an offer from Nick Saban’s Tide certainly trumps almost all others, which included Jones originally committing to Kentucky before Alabama came calling.
Obviously it all worked out in the end. Jones won a national title at Alabama with one of the greatest seasons by a quarterback in college football history. Having to earn his way up the talented Tide depth chart, he eventually made himself into a first-round prospect.
And, finally, he landed in New England for the hometown football team.
Just not the B.C. Eagles, which could have been the case a half-decade earlier.
But if you think about it, had history taken a different path, Tom Brady and Jones could have been in New England at the same time.
Instead, Jones is now trying live up to the too-early comparisons to the GOAT.
