A video of Trey Lance went viral this morning. No, it wasn't from the third-year quarterback's impressive Monday training camp practice. It wasn't even from training camp.
The video showed Lance overthrowing assistant equipment manager Doc Dressler in warmups. Naturally, Lance's critics used it as ammunition to back their negative narrative of the 23-year-old.
I had not even heard about the video until Cam Inman of The Mercury News mentioned it in a recent column, explaining why it was "extremely deceptive."
Barstool Sports was one of the platforms that kept the video up on its social media accounts, even after others had removed it.
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"For one, the video was from spring workouts over two months ago, which was easy to deduce considering Lance is shown wearing shorts, when he's donned red leggings throughout this training camp," explained Inman. "Also, as poorly as Lance overthrew Dressler, this was a warmup drill designed around footwork."
Inman points out that Lance had his best training camp practice on Monday. It may have been one of his best-ever practices. The former No. 3 overall draft pick is coming off a season-ending ankle injury and is fighting for the QB2 job behind likely starter Brock Purdy. The two other quarterbacks on the roster are Sam Darnold and Brandon Allen.
Inman added, "One Twitter aggregator took down the video upon being informed of all this; Barstool Sports did not and further fueled critics' anti-Lance narrative."