Sawyer Robertson Told Jon Gruden He Skipped Every LinkedIn Assignment in College, and That's Either Bold or Insane
Look, I get it. Fernando Mendoza spent the entire 2025 college football season doing everything right. The guy updated his LinkedIn regularly. He won the Heisman Trophy and still made time for his business school classes. Even as the consensus number one pick in the NFL Draft, Mendoza had a backup plan. The dude is going to be successful in life no matter what happens with football.
But then you've got Sawyer Robertson, who apparently told Jon Gruden something that made me sit up in my chair: he skipped every LinkedIn assignment he was given in college.
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The "Football or Bust" Mentality
Here's where I'm torn. Mendoza represents everything a player should do off the field. He's responsible, prepared, and has an exit strategy if football doesn't work out. That's the adult move. That's what your mom would tell you to do.
But Robertson? He's playing a different game entirely. This is a "There's no reason to have a Plan B, because it distracts from Plan A" type of guy. And honestly, there's something kind of refreshing about that level of commitment, even if it's objectively terrible life advice.
The dude is all in on football. No safety net. No LinkedIn updates. No business degree backup plan. He's either going to make it big or he's going to learn a hard lesson about diversification.
The Social Media Reckoning That Could Come
Here's what keeps me up at night about Sawyer Robertson's strategy: if things don't work out, and years from now he's looking for a job, that first LinkedIn notification updating his profile after years of silence is going to be rough. Really rough. That's the kind of thing social media never forgets.
I hope football works out for him. I truly do. Because the alternative is a cautionary tale that writes itself.
Robertson's confidence is undeniable. The guy genuinely believes he'll never need that Plan B. And maybe he's right. But it's a gamble that Mendoza would never take.
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