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By Steve Henson
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Advice from former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer prompted Ryan McCann to transfer from UCLA to Tennessee Chattanooga, a Division I-AA team that was 3-8 last season.

“He said I can’t wait around any longer, that I have to play,” McCann said.

The redshirt junior took private lessons from Kramer over the winter and believes he can play professionally.

After talking to UCLA coaches, McCann did not believe he would get a chance to start next season.

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McCann had to transfer to a school below the Division I level to be eligible next season because he used his redshirt year in 1998.

In three seasons at UCLA, McCann was 100 of 201 for 1,124 yards and four touchdowns.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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