Dylan Favre arrested on drug charge

PEARL RIVER COUNTY — The Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department arrested 20-year-old Dylan Dewayne Favre on Thursday in Poplarville on a charge of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, Chief Deputy Shane Tucker said.

Tucker said Favre was arrested just before 1 a.m. at a routine traffic stop by a convenience store at the corner of Mississippi 11 and West North Street, near Pearl River Community College. An officer smelled marijuana from the vehicle, he said, and deputies found marijuana and drug-related paraphernalia.

Authorities would not comment to how much marijuana was discovered. Favre also was ticketed for not having a license-plate light, Tucker said. He was booked at Pearl River County jail.

The education of a quarterback

Forty miles from the beaches of Orange County, the practice field out back at Bishop Mora Salesian High School near East L.A. might as well sit cross-country from the fertile quarterback grounds that spawned the likes of Carson Palmer, Matt Leinart and Mark Sanchez — not to mention imports like Drew Brees and Ben Roethlisberger, who spent time in California for individual instruction.

For Jihad Vercher, who threw for 3,281 yards and accounted for 49 touchdowns last fall as a Salesian junior en route to earning offensive MVP honors in the Santa Fe League, it’s a world away, in fact.

He’s an inch or two shorter than the ideally proportioned quarterback.

But Vercher toils tirelessly at his craft, constantly setting a good example for his little brother and sister. Vercher’s mother works for the government. His father drives a bus. They’re good people who want the best for their son, according to the coaches who tutor the QB in high school.

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Five states stand tall in QB debate

Texas and California are bigger, but are they better?

Pennsylvania is home to six of the 23 modern-era Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbacks, the most of any state. Ohio produced Roger Staubach and Ben Roethlisberger. And Alabama can lay claim to Packers Hall of Famer Bart Starr, Philip Rivers, and most recently, the Tide’s own national champ, AJ McCarron.

When it comes to producing elite quarterbacks, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Ohio have separated themselves from the pack. Together they have combined for 15 Heisman Trophy winners, 18 Pro Football Hall of Famers and more than half of the top 100 quarterback prospects in the ESPNU Class of 2012 rankings. The talent spans generations, from quarterbacks who are still 17 and 18 years old to veterans whose glory days were 20 or more years ago.

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