Everything You Missed from Justin Herbert's Fortnite Stream

Justin Herbert just won the 2020 NFL Rookie of the Year, so he celebrated all over the doubters' graves by playing some Fortnite.

After watching the trainwreck that was the Men’s basketball game last night, I’ve decided to wait until after Saturday’s Husky game until I fully evaluate what is going on with Dana Altman’s squad.

My only official statement is that February slumps are almost always a good omen for this program. Sure, this seems year like a whole new beast, but Will Richardson just came back, so maybe we’re a whole new beast too.

So, until there are good things to say about the Women beating up on UC Davis, and the Men sweeping UDub, then we’re going to talk about literally the only successful Duck from this week:

Justin Herbert: Fortnite Streamer

In the biggest NFL news of the week, Sheldon High School’s very own Justin Herbert was officially crowned Rookie of the Year.

The announcement was all but a formality at this point. We knew the title was all Herbie all since like Week 10. But it’s still pretty validating to finally see him hoist that Pepsi* trophy after such a ride of a season.

*Go Ducks. Drink Pepsi.

QB1 was doubted by every college recruiter except for Mark Helfrich; despised by Akili Smith and his cadre of Braxton Burmeister-stans; and counted out by all those little mock draft nerds.

And then an errant team doctor’s needle threw him into the deep end with a team that only knew how to play not to lose.

With about two-minutes notice he was called upon to be one of the 32 best quarterbacks in the world.

He answered that call, and now this kid from Eugene is the NFL’s next big thing.

How does he celebrate? He gets dubs.

Justin hopped on a live streamed game of Fortnite with his runningback, Austin Ekeler, and Buffalo Bills wide receiver, Stefon Diggs. Some Verizon company rep was their fourth.

I should mention that this whole event was a Verizon 5G promotion or something, but after my splitting headache subsided, I’d say I didn’t feel any real influence from the 5G sponsorship at all.

They played for about an hour, and none of them were really cracked at the game, but Herb did finish above all four of them in the biggest round they all played. Clearly the guy just doesn’t know how to lose.

If you happened to miss the stream, here’s some of my favorite bits of knowledge that came out during the game:

• Always humble (or always a competitor), Herb sandbagged them all by saying that his Fortnite skills were a, “1 out of 10.”

  (Like I mentioned before, he finished higher than the Ek, Diggs, or the Verizon guy in their one big match.)

• Herbie also told everyone that he’s pretty sure he’s going to grow the flow back, and that he only cut it because he felt like he hadn’t earned it yet.

  Obvioulsy he’s being way too hard on himself. When Herb cut his hair he was literally the only reason the Chargers were ever in any game in the first place, so the idea of punishing himself—and the world—with that haircut was obviously way too harsh. It’s like that albino guy in the DaVinci Code physically punishing himself just for being alive.

  Just insanely over-critical.

  But it’s safe to say Justin has done more than enough to earn it all back by now. Even by Justin’s standards.

• The Twitch Chat wanted to know why he wore the jersey number 10, and Justin just kind of laughed and said, “that’s the number they gave me in college.”

  Personally, I think he wears #10 because his favorite quarterback, Justin Herbert, wears #10.

• Someone in The Chat also kept donating $5 repeatedly just to say his mom wanted to get a date with Herbie.

• “Diggs to the Chargers?” asked Ekeler. No official response from Diggs.

• Diggs also told Herb to change his gamer tag to “Rookie of the Year Herbo” but I don’t think Justin was really feeling it.

The whole game went pretty quick, and it was very much facilitated by the Verizon rep that kept telling Diggs to quit saying “FUCK” (hey Verizon guy, I know you’re just doing your job, but have you ever played Fortnite without saying fuck?).

But it was still a lot of fun to see Herbert in a casual setting, playing a game that he wasn’t incredible at, and getting to laugh and pall around with some of the biggest playmakers in the NFL.

He was among peers, for sure.

Go Ducks.