RZB Hall of Fame

“Lawrence was a clutch football player. When it counted he could raise his game. He had something about him that made players around him better. The Joe Montana of the RZB.



His running ability was one of his core strengths. But even if you took that mobility away from him, he would still of been better than any other Quarterback in RZB history. He was that far ahead of the pack.”







Lawrence Perry
The GOAT  


Lawrence grew up as an only child, in Rathdrum, Idaho, a small town of barely 7000 people. His father worked as a mountaineer in the Selkirk mountain range, and had always taken Lawrence out with him at a young age, teaching him the importance of understanding patience, leadership, and the significance of football, and what being a player could do to support himself, and his family. Lawrence started playing football at the earliest possible age, it was an activity he could partake with others his age, considering he had no siblings, it was more than just a hobby for him, it was a second family where he could have a multitude brothers. Lawrence was always a little smaller than the other kids going through middle school, and never really stood out from the pack. However, in the summer of 2009, at the age of 15, he had a significant growth spurt, and it was if god had touched him, he went from 5ft7 to 6ft, put on significant muscle, and was electric over all distances. This lethal combination of athleticism combined with his already matured accuracy proved incredibly dangerous in both of his junior and senior years of high school. Lawrence Perry would leave high school and his home state of Idaho as a 5 star recruit to the college of Idaho to play Quarterback.



Now at the Hawk-eyes, he would have to compete. Lawrence Perry was recruited in the same class as Ernie Hawks, and surprisingly, it was Hawks that won the job in Iowa. The coaching staff deemed him to be more mature and ready to take over the mantle as starting QB. Lawrence Perry wouldn’t just sit out his freshman year, but his sophomore and junior years too. To many, it was surprising that Lawrence had not yet transferred to get playing time to make a name for himself to possibly go to the RZB at some point. Instead, he sat, and he learned. Perry managed to gain himself a degree in the time he was sitting, and would prepare himself to be the very best possible player he could be if he ever got his shot. Fortunately for Perry, Ernie Hawks believed he was ready to go to the draft after his junior season, after leading Iowa to the championship game, but losing out to Baylor and Ralph Mcneil. Hawks would be taken 1st overall in the 2017 draft (Ernie Hawks would never amount to anything in the RZB, finishing his career as a journeyman mentor). Lawrence Perry finally had his shot in his senior year, and by this point, 23 year old Perry was a man, he had 4.40 speed, and was built more like a RB. His senior year was outlandishly successful, his Iowa team, without any other apparent talent than Perry would go undefeated with him under centre. He threw for 39TD’s, and only 5 picks. He also rushed for 8TD’s, he was a true dual threat QB, which took his team back to the championship game, where Iowa won it all. And at many peoples surprise though, it was not the dominant Perry that was named Heisman, but Nathan Edmunds instead, a career long rivalry had been forged in that instant. Going into the 2018 draft, it was evident that both Perry and Edmunds would go first and second, it was just in what order. Many at the time believe it was the draft day which finally sorted out the order. For some reason, and it’s still not completely clear, but Perry chose to not attend, and do any pre-draft workouts (rumours began to spread it was because of his party lifestyle he had gained, and there was a fear of a possible drugs test). As draft night came along, Edmunds went 1.1 to the 49ers, and Perry went 1.2 to the Seahawks. From sitting for 3 years in college, Perry was now a star in the making again.



The pressure was surely on Perry’s shoulders going into his rookie season at the Seahawks. They had recently traded franchise and bowl winning QB Russell Wilson to acquire the 1.2 pick, and Perry had to succeed. Perry had a great first camp, and more importantly, a great rookie year, and he was consensus pick as the offensive rookie of the year. He was the truth. In only his 2nd season, Perry manage to carry his team to the RZB bowl game, just to lose out to the Titans, little did Perry know at this point though, that he would have a long 10 year love affair with this bowl game. By the end of Perry’s rookie contract, he was already twice 2nd team all-league QB. The 2022 season was where his team would finally click though, and although it was his worse regular season to date, he helped his Seahawks to the Bowl game, just to destroy the Steelers 40-21, Perry was the Bowl MVP. The 2023 season would go in the same vein, worst personal regular season, but another Bowl game, this time against the Patriots winning 40-20, and a 2nd Bowl game MVP. Perry would go back to the Bowl game for the next 3 seasons, winning two of them against the Steelers, and losing one to the Steelers. A truly incredible run of 5 back to back bowl games, and 4 bowl game MVP’s. The 2027 season was to be the true start of Perry’s own personal success. As for another 3 back to back seasons, he would be 1st all-league QB, League MVP and Offensive player of the season. Perry truly was on top of the world, he was at a complete different level to every other counterpart. Lawrence Perry’s greatest season came in the year of 2028, he would truly transcend the realms of what everyone believed a QB should be capable of doing, and his stat line was something you expect from one great game, not an entire season. Perry threw for 5475 yards, hitting his target 76.2% of the time. Staggeringly, he broke the TD record as well, throwing for 55, and only seeing 6 passes going as interceptions. With a passer rating of 131.2, it was the greatest one season by any player. EVER.



Perry’s career would appear to come to an abrupt end, in the off season of the 2031 season, he got caught up in some sort of altercation, on a night out with his family while on holiday. The details are still kind of murky, but it was to be believed that the assault had been brought upon by the appearance of some illegal substance abuse. It was also rumoured that some PED’s had been found with in his system upon drug analysis, but nothing was ever truly reported. His 2031 season would be no more, due to a season long ban by the RZB league board. It was during this season of not playing that Lawrence Perry decided that he had done everything, he no longer had anything to prove, and he would retire formally at the end of the season, as to not cause any in house disruption in the Seahawks base.



Lawrence Perry would retire as the most decorated and accomplished QB the RZB had ever seen, and probably ever will. He will always be on the Mount Rushmore as the league’s most transcendental talent, and his legacy will be forever remembered as the name of Lawrence Perry has been eternally immortalised.