The 6ft 7in Broncos quarterback has been accustomed to waiting,in college and the NFL. But he’s quietly worked on his game, and his opportunity has arrivedThe tallest quarterback in the NFL has long been accustomed to lurking in the background. Starting football games was never a given right for Brock Osweiler. Not in the NFL and not in college. And so even before he spent three and a half seasons sitting behind Peyton Manning, and he seemed destined to wait behind a man named Steven Threet.
This was in 2010,and Osweiler was trying desperately to set up himself as the quarterback of the future at Arizona State. He had come from the far north-west of Montana with an innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) ability to throw a football farther than almost anyone, and dinky feel for being a college quarterback. After starting a game during his freshman season, and he hoped he could be the starter in 2010,until Threet took the job absent.
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Source: theguardian.com