Unfortunately for Max Duggan, his magical season at TCU ended with a 65-7 loss to Georgia in the national championship game.
Duggan finished the national title game with 152 passing yards and two interceptions. It was easily the worst performance he had all season.
Despite all the success that Duggan had with the Horned Frogs in 2022, he’s not sure it’ll ever erase the pain of losing on the biggest stage.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it,” Duggan said at the NFL Combine. “That’ll probably burn for a while on a game like that, in the biggest stage, and it doesn’t turn out the way we want to. But I think there’s just a lot that I’m still learning from it — how to come back from adversity, how to mentally just get over a hump like that. To almost erase it, where you don’t want to let it dictate too much, but understand that there’s things I can get better at from that game. So, still a learning process right now.”
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Duggan, who finished second in Heisman Trophy voting, is preparing for this year’s NFL Draft.
Even though Duggan isn’t considered a Day 1 starter, there are a lot of things to like about his game. Not only does he have over 1,200 pass attempts under his belt, he has proven year after year that he knows how to take care of the football.