In the current era of college football, antsy quarterbacks have an out. Get relegated to the bench for a year or two? Don't like how the depth chart looks? You can take the transfer-portal exit.

Twenty years ago, players transferred, but not en masse. B.J. Symons sat for four years to play for one year and turned that one into one of the more eventful single seasons you'll see for a quarterback. As a Texas Tech football fifth-year senior in 2003, he passed for 5,833 yards — an FBS record for a 13-game season — and 52 touchdowns.

Two weeks ago, the Double T Varsity Club inducted Symons into the Texas Tech Athletics Hall of Fame .

Oh, and Symons played the last seven games of 2003 with a torn knee ligament he suffered — get this, kids — while celebrating one of his touchdown passes.

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