Cops always carry whether they are on duty or not. He may have been off duty but if he was needed you wouldn't want for him to have to go home to get his gun first.
Some are older. Chris Weinke was older than Joe Brady when he won the Heisman. And Brady just came from the money league. Both the NFL and D1 football are money leagues. NFL players just get paid more.
That's true to a degree. And now with the "Transfer Portal" you can go shopping for all your potential needs. Perhaps in the future the transfer portal will involve lottery picks? "And it's Kentucky wins the flashy, but disgruntled WR with 4.38 speed, just graduated in farm animal sheering science at Iowa."
You are such an easy button to push. Some time ago, you had about 4 dead horses that you swung your stick at, but since the hire of Brady, you go on to kill another horse with toothpicks. For a second just think, your biggest defendant, O... was the very person that hired Brady to do what exactly? Expand the playbook. You can't be helped.