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Fantasy Soccer nerds, hear up … Jake Plummer says he is anticipating a monster 12 months from Justin Herbert — telling TMZ Sports activities he thinks Jim Harbaugh will get the easiest out of the Chargers star.
Plummer performed within the NFL concurrently Harbaugh within the late Nineteen Nineties — and it is clear as day he grew a ton of respect for the Bolts’ head man. A lot so, he believes Herbert’s recreation will soar to new heights underneath his tutelage.
The previous Arizona State star quarterback says as a result of Harbaugh wasn’t probably the most athletic signal-caller, he grew a large soccer IQ … and he anticipates that being handed on simply to Herbert.
Plummer mentioned one in every of Harbaugh’s most up-to-date hires — offensive assistant Marc Trestman — also needs to play a job in Herbert’s improvement … explaining to us the longtime coach will get the 26-year-old actually able to shred defenses.
In fact, Plummer was already excessive on Herbert’s recreation earlier than the hires — however he informed us with the 2 guys on the Chargers’ workers, “Maybe we haven’t seen the best of him yet!”
Plummer additionally spoke to us about this 12 months’s crop of NFL draft quarterback prospects … and he — like everybody else — says Caleb Williams ought to be the No. 1 overall choice.
However, he mentioned he actually likes what he is seen from two others as nicely — Bo Nix, and, you guessed it, Harbaugh’s former Univ. of Michigan QB, J.J. McCarthy.
