The first African American QB to win a playoff game and to earn Pro Bowl MVP honors predated a renaissance of Black talent at the game’s most important position.
It might seem hard to believe now, in an era when Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson and Dak Prescott have redefined the quarterback position in the NFL, or where the current Heisman Trophy race might begin and end with African American quarterbacks: Bryce Young at Alabama, C.J. Stroud at Ohio State, Caleb Williams at USC.
By 1974. Harris had supplanted Hadl as the starter at midseason and became the first Black quarterback to win a playoff game, make the Pro Bowl and win Pro Bowl MVP honors. He was 17-4 as the Rams’ starter before hurting his shoulder in a December 1975 game in New Orleans. But there is a path from then to now, as laid out by Jason Reid in his recently published book, “Rise of the Black Quarterback” .
Jason Reid, author of “Rise of the Black Quarterback: What It Means for America,” says a common feeling among the Black quarterbacks seeking to break into the game in the 1970s and ’80s was the enormous pressure to play mistake-free football. That was, remember, a stretch when the Rams won the first four of seven consecutive NFC West titles from 1973 through ’79, five under Knox and two under Ray Malavasi. It was also a stretch when the Rams reached the NFC championship game four times in six years and lost each one, and the urgency was magnified every year they fell short.
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