Many articles about Shuler talk about his great college career — but was it really so great? Without spending a lot of time researching the issue (which is the way we prefer to do things), here are two points:

• The QB to follow him at Tennessee, Peyton Manning, was, um, slightly better.
• He was runner up to Charlie Ward for the 1993 Heisman trophy — he couldn’t even beat a guy who ended up in the NBA.

So let’s not get too excited about his college career…