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    Darnold and Rosen are given high marks by QB experts. But will they go pro after this year?

    by By Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times Sep 29, 2017 7 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - They reside on opposite sides of a storied college rivalry, with vastly different personalities and different ways of getting their jobs done.

    But quarterbacks Sam Darnold of USC and Josh Rosen of UCLA could wind up in same place next spring - at or near the top of the NFL draft.

    Just how much a dazzling new quarterback can mean to a franchise is on display this weekend as this city's two NFL teams enter Week 4. The Rams are at Dallas, and the Chargers play host to Philadelphia. Three of the four starting quarterbacks in those games were products of the 2016 draft: Jared Goff of the Rams, Carson Wentz of the Eagles and Dak Prescott of the Cowboys. Each has provided his team with varying degrees of hope.

    Meanwhile, Rosen, a junior, and Darnold, a redshirt sophomore, could be on the verge of history. Only once in the last 50 years have quarterbacks from both schools been selected in the same draft - in 1989, UCLA's Troy Aikman was taken No. 1 overall by Dallas, and USC's Rodney Peete went in

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