Trace McSorley
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| Position | Quarterback |
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| Major | Business |
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| High school | Ashburn (VA) Briar Woods |
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| Date of birth | August 23, 1995 |
| Place of birth | Ashburn, Virginia |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg) |
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Richard Thomas "Trace" McSorley III (born August 23, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Penn State Nittany Lions of the Big Ten Conference.
McSorley attended Briar Woods High School in Ashburn, Virginia from 2010 to 2014, where he started from his freshman year of high school. In his freshman year, he led the team to a 13–2 record and a state championship. Two seasons later in his junior year, he led the team to a 15–0 record and its third consecutive state title. He was named First-team All-State by the Virginia Coaches Association and Virginia Preps. As a junior, he was awarded All-Dulles District First Team; Dulles District Offensive Player of the Year; and Second-team All-Region quarterback.
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During McSorley's redshirt freshman year, he appeared in a total of six games, five of them when the game was in hand and McSorley was only in for a few plays. In the 2016 Taxslayer Bowl against the Georgia Bulldogs, after then starter Christian Hackenberg went out with an injury, McSorley was brought in with Penn State down 24–3. He nearly led a comeback, finishing the game 14 for 27 with 142 yards and two touchdowns, however PSU fell short 24–17.
With the early departure of quarterback Christian Hackenberg, who was drafted in the 2016 NFL Draft by the New York Jets, McSorley and redshirt freshman Tommy Stevens competed for the job. On McSorley's birthday, August 24, 2016, head coach James Franklin announced that McSorley would be the starter. In his first start on September 3, against Kent State, he went 16 of 31 for 209 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 33–13 win. In McSorley's second game, he threw for 332 yards and a score in a rivalry game at Pitt. Later in the season when the Nittany Lions played Minnesota, McSorley put up career high yardage numbers when he threw for 335 yards in a 29–26 OT win.
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