Nestled on a brown leather couch inside the Loft at The Biscuit Lounge, just a few miles from the Highlands neighborhood where he grew up, Desmond Ridder sat with his cellphone on his lap. His agent and managers paced, exchanging text messages while keeping their phones charged in a nearby outlet. But through the first two rounds of the 2022 NFL Draft, none of their phones rang.
Read MoreAhmad "Sauce" Gardner can do things on a football field that a coach simply can't teach. It's that quality that earned him his nickname. It's also the quality that could make him the highest-drafted player in the history of the University of Cincinnati program.
Read MoreCoaches are teachers. University of Cincinnati football coach Luke Fickell is no different. But while teaching, Fickell also has learned, a lot. And many of those lessons came from the teachings of Desmond Ridder.
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