Sawyer Robertson Told Jon Gruden He Never Updated His LinkedIn Once in College, and That's the Whole Story Right There
Look, I get it. Fernando Mendoza spent the entire 2025 college football season being the most responsible human on a football field. The guy won the Heisman Trophy and still found time to keep his LinkedIn profile current. Even after winning the biggest award in college football, Mendoza was out there updating his professional network like he was prepping for a job interview at Goldman Sachs. That's respect. That's a backup plan. That's the kind of quarterback who's going to be fine no matter what happens in the NFL.
Then you've got Sawyer Robertson, an NFL Draft prospect who apparently looked Jon Gruden in the eye and told him he skipped every single LinkedIn assignment he was given in college. Not some of them. Every one. This is a guy who is genuinely, completely, all-in on football or nothing. There's no Plan B. There's no safety net. He didn't update his LinkedIn in years because he never planned on needing it.
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Here's the thing about Robertson: the guy is the complete opposite of Mendoza's polished, prepared approach. Mendoza was the consensus number one pick and still took business school seriously because that's what a responsible guy does. He had options. He had a plan. Robertson? Robertson is betting everything on making it in the NFL. No backup plan. No professional networking strategy. Just pure, unfiltered confidence that football is going to work out.
Why This Actually Matters
I'm not saying Robertson is right to skip the whole LinkedIn thing. I'm definitely not telling young quarterbacks to ignore building professional networks. But there's something honest about a guy who commits that hard to one goal. Robertson is saying out loud what most athletes only think: "I'm going all-in on this." No distractions. No Plan B because Plan B only makes you doubt Plan A.
The real question is whether it works out for him. Because if Robertson flames out of football, that first LinkedIn update notification is going to hit different. Social media is going to have a field day. But if he sticks in the league and builds a career? Then he never needed the backup plan in the first place.
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