When John Beck first watched Jayden Maiava throw a football up close this summer, he could see pretty quickly why USC might hang its hopes on Maiava’s rocket right arm.
“He spins the ball really well,” Beck said. “The talent is there. The ability is there.”
Few are as qualified as Beck to make that assessment. A former NFL quarterback and private quarterbacks coach for 3DQB , he has helped fine tune some of the best passers in the sport, from Tom Brady and Drew Brees to Matthew Stafford and Justin Herbert . And this summer, over “a handful” of sessions at 3DQB’s training facility in Huntington Beach, Beck turned his attention to the mechanics of the Trojans’ starting quarterback.
Beck already had a general idea of how Maiava had risen into the starting role. He knew after