J.T. O'Sullivan's Journey: From Division II Heisman Candidate to NFL Backup QB | NFL Films Presents 

His RU-vid channel "The QB School" is absolutely amazing!

I remember this dude always being in the madden free agents

Hi I’m Jt O’Sullivan and welcome to the qb school.

First td pass was to Calvin Johnson. Pretty cool.

I know many people that would refuse to be a backup in the NFL and others that would quit the minute they hear they aren't playing. The fact this dude was a career backup and was happy with that is actually a nice change of scenerio, he just seemed grateful for even being drafted.

He may have not been good, but the road itself to the NFL is incredible

remember him playing for my Niners. respect to him for getting the education after he retired

His RU-vid channel "The QB School" is the BEST resource on the internet.

He's my highschool football head coach now

What an amazing wife

He seems like a down to earth individual, very humble man, dosent dwell on the past but embrace it for what it was, an is , glad he was able to walk away an still make something out of it .

This guy's RU-vid channel is a gold mine for football knowledge

And now..... a phenomenal RU-vid content creator! @theqbschool!! Love his channel, seems like a great guy

This man is a legend at UC Davis

The one thing I like is he didn’t let his nfl career let him down... that’s true character

This dude seems genuine and grateful. Glad he's happy for him and his family, very cool!

I love these human stories. I am from California, about a 20 minute drive from Davis and his school of UCD. I grew up a 49ers fan, and while he was no star, I felt happy to watch a local kid play as the starting QB for my favorite team. Maybe like five people in the world know this, but if you played as the 49ers in EA Sports Head Coach for the xbox or PS2, J. T. O'Sullivan would easily become a start QB under the Mike Martz offense. The way the game is set up, the playbook and everything aligned for him to be the second coming of Kurt Warner. That wasn't just my experience, other people tried it out and saw the same results. I will always have fond video game memories of J.T. O'Sullivan.

He was a 3rd stringer for my Roughriders in the CFL, as I recall he was very well liked and respected.

He was one of the few bad niner QBs that I liked. And I always pulled for him lol. Him and Sean Hill were legit

Those were truly some dark years of Niner football between JT and coach Mike Nolan

This guy has been on every team in the NFC North.

Greatest Backup QB Ever.

Cool to see a short on J.T. Remember watching him play for the Galaxy. Shame they didn't win the final World Bowl.

...And now JT passes along his depth of knowledge to the next generation. A wise man

I love his RU-vid channel, the QB school.

Honestly good for him... He went from having fun to making millions... Thats a success story

Now I understand why QB School actually feels like school. A lot of competition for football analysis, and QB School is my favorite. Even after everything he put his wife through (granted, Navy brat), she still is still devoted, says something about him. His likeability shows up in the program. Hardly ever says anything bad about people. The worst is something like 'you can't do that'.

Bruh he’s been every where 😳

Remember going to candle stick and watching jt play

Can you imagine having no idea the NFL is going to draft you? Haha

This man has lived a full life. He's really inspired me to go out and do more. I complain way too much. So glad I saw this video

I swear Chris Berman used to call him "J.T. O' Smelling Salts". Lol.

For some reason i remember him playing for the 9ers and i always pulled for him. He came right before the 9ers start hitting it big.

Gotta love guys like this

Love his channel, down to earth dude great to hear his story, his first touchdown pass to Megatron, great to see he got all he could from the game he loves.

186th overall, and yet still higher than the GOAT

This is a really great story. It was really neat to hear a little bit about his life after the NFL.

Guys like J.T. are the backbone of the NFL....

What an inspiration! Great story to watch for sure. I remember seeing him play for the niners, but dont recall hearing his name when he played for my patriots.

What a humbled Back up QB.

What a good guy!!

This is inspiring. What a great dude

Dude got to collect NFL paychecks for like a decade... Word.

Very cool story. What’s really crazy is these guys who are considered backups in the NFL are still some of the absolute best in the world when it comes to throwing a football. I mean you put a second/third string NFL guy against any turkey bowl MVP and it’s not even going to be close.

Really enjoy his analysis on his channel the QB school

Nice JT! I began watching your football analysis a couple years ago and today stumbled across your story! Awesome dude!!

This is awesome. Just a regular dude that got to live his dream, and is grateful for the opportunity to have been able to do it.

QB School!

He looks like Aaron Rodgers and/or John Cena 😂

i remember him well. good for you jt

One of the coolest guys ever we collaborate on my channel and I enjoyed it and so did the subs he sent me here and this is awesome

I love stories like these

So his name is now D.R.J.T.O lol

For those that ended up here after becoming fans of The QB School...congrats, you found the origin story. Keep it up JT.

Grinning like a fool throughout this entire video. What a great story. And, of course, let's not forget that he's got his own RU-vid Channel now (youtube.com/@TheQBSchool) where he diagrams games and offenses and quarterback play. One of the best analysts working out there these days. Doctor O'Sullivan!

I remember that year he played qb for my niners, glad he’s doing well these days

Wow he played in the NFL and now he has a Ph.d! Cool! He has the best of both worlds.

Thats my coach :')

guy takes a hell of a knew. god love this guy. cheers boyo

He now runs the best football analysis channel out there

JT has the best QB breakdown videos on youtube with QB School. He may have not have had great success in NFL but his journeyman career makes him so knowledgeable in his film breakdowns. He might be more suited to be a QB coach.

7:25 I am learning how to become a personal assistant to an aspiring Broadway playwright. We were talking about this very concept the night before I watched this video again. It is funny how life works!

This guy needs to be an offensive coordinator or assistant in the nfl. Straight up dude. With a world of experience. His QB School channel here on RU-vid absolutely on point. Not much more I can say.🏈👏😉

Glad to see you have some Rider Pride!

Love it!

I saw the Clive Cussler book, you can’t fool me J.T.

Love is youtube channel QBschool, very informative

And now he runs the best football channel on the RU-vids...

Yes absolutely, he is tremendous with his YT channel the qb school.

The original Luis Perez

It's here to show how hard is to be a QB in the NFL. This dude have a huge football IQ(you can see on his channel ''The QB school'')and yet he was a backup/pretty bad starter his whole career. That's why the good QBs takes ''all the money'' of the roster, because is the most difficult and specialized position in sports.

That's the same bookshelf from the QB School!

Remember him with the Saints on Madden 05

5:22 Clive Cussler books ... Not the Ph.D. reading list .... LOL I've read a bunch of those too. It's the Fiction part of his library

I remeber him !!

As a Niner fan I remember watching him and thinking he was the best we had at the time.. I think it was between him and Shaun Hill

Don't fool yourself if you think this guy doesn't have value! Think of how many playbooks this guy has seen as well as discussions with different coordinators in film rooms. Holding the clipboard for the starter provides so many situational awareness knowledge that he could possibly be a great QB coach one day, and maybe even an offensive coordinator!

It's about perseverance.

He probably made around 5 million for 10 years worth of work. That's pretty great.

This starts off like a Lowe's commercial. Also, lots of whistling.

Nice

Still have his niners jersey tho’.

Please upload old nfl films with john facenda as the narrator.

Yo I been watching his videos for awhile now! He has a RU-vid account where he breaks down plays!!! I never even knew he play in the nfl. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This dude kicked ass at UC Davis....

It’s stories like this that makes me want to finish up my Bachelors degree.

Niner Fan.....man those JTO days were dark....JTO Chris Winke a hurt Alex Smith 😪

Just goes to show how hard it is to play in the nfl

Good story. The man figured it out and would continue to go to college. Goes to show you can really figure these sorts of things out. Was his scholarship to UC Davis a full ride or partial, I wonder though.

John kitna haven’t heard that name in years

Check out his RU-vid channel: "The QB School".... great channel.

I can name around 28 teams this guys is more than qualified to run. Hope he gets his shot.

That TD to Megatron would have ben offensive PI if it was this year smh

who else looked for the skip ad button at the begging of the video?

QB School is the best

What is the title all I saw was division 2 heisman candidate to... i was thinking it was gonna be a teacher or doctor or something but of course he’s a backup

See that Peter Max in his library.

Make me wanna sign him on madden and resurrect his career

April 20 is my birthday

I don't know why more teams don't have the backup do the victory formation plays.