McNair was basically already NFL-ready heading into 1994. “It was a seesaw battle,” McNair said of the decision’s pros and cons. The ‘94 draft featured a couple QBs slated to go higher, Trent Dilfer and Heath Shuler, and he wanted to keep playing at Alcorn along with his brother Tim, a receiver. The NFL’s draft advisory committee told him he’d be a first- or second-round pick, which would’ve let him buy a Lexus he’d thought about often, as he’d explained to the Clarion Ledger.īut McNair decided to play his senior year. He was already an accomplished college QB, a three-year starter who’d set all the school’s big passing records. He was positioned to graduate easily, whether right then or not. His mom raised five kids while working for a Magnetek plant in Simpson County, Mississippi. Steve McNair almost didn’t come back to Alcorn State for 1994.
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