Athan Kaliakmanis started playing quarterback as a sixth grader in Antioch, Illinois, more than a decade ago. He has appeared in 48 games in the Big Ten as a college passer since then, nearly as many during a decorated high school career and countless others when he was still just a skinny kid learning the sport.

Add it up, and he has dropped back to pass a few thousand times in his 22 years on this planet. In all that time, he has never — not even once — had the football just fall out of his hands as he was preparing to throw the ball.

“That’s never happened to me before,” the dumbfounded Rutgers quarterback said on Saturday night, less than an hour after it happened for the first time at an almost comically bad moment during a 40-36 loss to Penn State.

Never. Happened. Before. Let

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