USC Freshman QB Kedon Slovis is a Real Person and He Makes JT Daniels Look Very Average

Kedon Slovis sounds like a create-a-player in NCAA '14. Surely a recruit programmed far before his time, this real man (we promise) is threading the Stanford defense like swiss cheese. Stay with us, you haven't even heard his story.

Slovis was a 3-star recruit, passed over by most schools but signed on by USC because, frankly, they needed the bodies. Yet, Slovis has showed out since spring camp after enrolling early, and slowly but steadily made his way up the depth chart.

After the JT Daniels injury last week, for which he'll miss the entire season, Slovis has stepped in as the Trojans' starter. Just a few touchdowns later, and we're questioning how the hell we missed this kid in the recruiting process?

Slovis was often overlooked during the recruiting process because he...didn't act like a 5-star signal-caller. No, we're serious.

“He was a high school kid,” former USC QB coach Bryan Ellis told The Athletic. “He wasn’t caught up in all the other nonsense. Not to say other guys aren’t good, too, but he just went about his business in a different way than I had noticed SC-caliber quarterbacks do. The highly recruited kids are at every camp. Every possible recruiting function they could go to. He just wasn’t that way."

Daniels was the blue chip recruit. He was the future of USC football, and it all evaporated in an instant.

Sure, Slovis is just one game in, but it's a monumental achievement for a kid who still (due to the time zone difference) has yet to truly arrive for the Trojans.