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5 things to know about Southern Miss quarterback Jack Abraham

Landon Bost
Hattiesburg American

Southern Miss senior quarterback Jack Abraham has earned Preseason All-Conference USA honors and has been named to the Manning Award and Johnny Unitas Golden Arm preseason watch lists.

Here are five things to know about Abraham before the Golden Eagles host South Alabama Thursday in their first game of the 2020 season.

Doubted since high school

A simple message hung on Abraham's bathroom mirror in high school: He'd never be good enough to play Division I. The thoughts of a North Carolina football coach he met at a showcase event in Chapel Hill. The words drove Abraham to compete in three-straight Mississippi state championships and fulfilling his dreams.

From Mississippi

The Oxford native graduated from Oxford High school in 2016 and went to Louisiana Tech. He transferred to Northwest Mississipi Community College after being redshirted, and threw for 2,949 passing yards, with 23 touchdown passes and only eight interceptions in his lone season, and signed with the Golden Eagles in 2017.

Climbing the records chart

After becoming the third quarterback to throw for over 3,000 yards in a season, Abraham ranks seventh on the Golden Eagles' all-time career passing list with 5,843 career passing yards. He is only 1,853 passing yards shy of surpassing Brett Farve for third on the list. Abraham tied former quarterback Austin Davis during his 2019 campaign for the second-most passing yards in a season .

Most accurate passer in school history

In his first year as starting quarterback, Abraham led the nation in completion percentage and ranked fourth in completions per game. He set a school-record last season against Troy with 17-straight passing completions to being the game. Abraham's 70.1 career-completion percentage is the highest of any Southern Miss quarterback with over 41 passing attempts.

Dental school post-grad

Abraham plans to attend dental school post-graduation, following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father Micheal, who was a former quarterback at Ole Miss in 1989.