Ryan Kartje is the USC beat writer at the Los Angeles Times.
Before he played the position, Jayden Maiava had a sense of what a Samoan quarterback could mean to his community. Growing up in Oahu’s Palolo Valley in a big Samoan family, he’d felt that power firsthand. Like so many other boys his age on the Hawaiian Islands, he watched Marcus Mariota at Oregon and Tua Tagovailoa at Alabama with a sense of awe and wonder.
He’d been on four-hour car rides to Las Vegas with Maiava during which he barely spoke a word. That was how Moenoa had known Maiava to be as one of eight siblings on the island. He’d always been quiet — and quick to defer to others around him. “In Samoan culture, you never talk out of turn,” Moenoa said. “You never overtalk. You never boast. You just do your thing.” But football had a way of bringing Maiava out of his shell.
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