Why QB Progressions?

🏈 Why QB Progressions?

QB Progressions was created for two primary reasons:
1️⃣ To create connections between quarterbacks based upon our common experiences
2️⃣ To support young quarterbacks in their life’s progressions

Quarterbacks are taught to “go through their progressions” on the field. To make your reads, make a good decision, and move the chains. Sometimes it even goes according to plan :)

QB Progressions is the same kind of thing, but focused on the progressions that happen off the field:

• Young (current) quarterbacks need support with off-field progressions, especially when it comes time to transition to “real life” and their careers and vocations. Their needs are many, especially as it relates to mental health, building strong connections, and telling their stories with conviction and confidence.

• Older (former) quarterbacks often move on from the game and its natural camaraderie, and when “real life” progressions happen, can become busy and disconnected. Evidence shows that our society actually has an epidemic of disconnection, and this leads to negative consequences of multiple forms.

QB Progressions aims to support quarterbacks, current and former, young and old, and to bring them together based upon the common histories and experiences we share.

What, exactly, do we share?

• Being a quarterback is a combination of reading situations, leading teammates while also relying almost entirely upon them, making decisions under pressure, accepting responsibility, watching your mistakes, and moving on to the next play. It’s almost never easy, and it’s never what it seems to the outside world. It’s hard, it’s stressful, and a strange existence in many ways.

But when the game ends, those skills and challenges can become your greatest advantage — if you know how to use them, and if you maximize the relationships you build along the way.

That’s what QB Progressions is all about.

QB Progressions is coaching and community for Lifelong Quarterbacks.

What to Expect

We will start with a video-centric newsletter, called Film Sessions, designed to help quarterbacks — no matter what level or status — learn from the experiences of others and translate those learnings into success and happiness off the field.

During Film Sessions we will:

• Spotlight QBs creating real-world impact in careers and communities

• Explore insights related to physical, mental, and emotional health

• Foster skills that drive success and happiness

• Celebrate QBs making great plays and performances

• Support QBs persevering through challenges and adversity

• Build a community of Lifelong Quarterbacks - a “QB Room for Life”

The weekly Film Sessions are free and available to anyone.

As our network grows, so will the opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, and impact — all focused on helping quarterbacks stay connected and helping young players navigate the transition ahead.

If that sounds like your kind of team, welcome to the Huddle.

A Note From the Creator of QB Progressions

Hi, I’m Vin Ferrara, creator of QB Progressions. Over the years, I have had the privilege of wearing a lot of different hats … or helmets, I suppose … as a student-athlete, Harvard Quarterback, entrepreneur, consultant, investor, and most importantly, as a husband and father of four. Each stage has brought its own lessons, challenges, and opportunities to grow.

Through it all, I’ve learned that progress isn’t linear — it’s a series of reads and adjustments. It’s a bunch of progressions.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the chance to mentor several student-athletes, including my own children, as they reached the end of their playing days. Some were considering medicine or business; others were just trying to figure out their next move. They all need help, especially with telling their stories with conviction and confidence, and they all appreciate and benefit greatly from it.

I’ve also lost a number of my own teammates over the years, due to causes that often seem to center around a lack of connection with others, or a loss of hope.

I decided to try to do something about both of those things, and try to bring people together around a common theme, (re)connect them to each other, and support the next generation.

In a world where many people are too disconnected, your bond with other QBs, including those from your own QB room, your competitors on the other sideline, or those you watched in admiration, is likely strong and valuable.

Please subscribe and consider sharing this with other QBs as a way to build much needed human connection and foster success and happiness.

In fact, share it with anyone you think might benefit. This Huddle is open to all.

Thank you.  

— Vin