How LA Rams QB Stetson Bennett can hit jackpot playing with house money

Bennett proves to be tough enough over and over.

There are two things about human nature that are true. It seems as though everyone ultimately cheers for the underdog. And on the other end of spectrum, everyone loves to applaud the comeuppance of successful people. Curiously, the roller coaster ride of support and decrying successful persons can befall the same individual.

If you think that Stetson Bennett's opposition as a backup quarterback in the LA Rams offense is his first experience with back draft profiles, strong opposition, and underwhelming expectations, you should probably educate yourself to the college football career of Stetson Bennett.

He was a walk-on football player for the Georgia Bulldogs. While he had scholarship offers to play football elsewhere, he bet on himself to the point of risking paying for his college education just to play in the SEC. As you can see by the Tweet below, he proved all naysayers wrong. He led his team not just to one national championship, but to consecutive NCAA National Football Championships.

Stetson Bennett was the best story in College Football. He embodied everything that College Athletics should be about.

He was told over and over the things he couldn't do, and now the only thing all those people can call him is CHAMPION (TWICE).pic.twitter.com/DpsXU9XYjS
— The Bulldawg Report (@ReportBulldawg) May 17, 2024

Plenty of football analysts and 'experts' failed to give him the time of day, a snowball's chance in Hades, or even the polite 'possible but unlikely,' review that left the door open for some slim chance of success.

Curiously, those same odds face him once more as he tries to earn his place with the LA Rams and

Bennett proves to be tough enough over and over.

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