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ESPN staff
You hold in your hands The Mag’s 18th NEXT Issue. (They grow up so fast. You blink, and your little baby NEXT is old enough to vote.) So perhaps you think that by now you know what NEXT is all about. You’re probably wrong!
Is NEXT the issue where we divine who’s next? You betcha. But it’s also where we divine what’s next.
Take Nick Bosa — not just the NFL’s next great edge rusher but the leading edge of the coming challenge to the hegemony of the NCAA. Or consider Kyler Murray — not only the next undersized Heisman winner punching above his weight but the future iteration of the carefully curated modern superstar. Or consider Zion Williamson (page 56) and Fran Belibi — not merely the newest practitioners of rim-rattling viral dunks but a poet and a future pediatrician, respectively; both the embodiment of fully realized future stars, both prepared to pulverize your every paradigm.
So dispense with your stereotypes. Banish your misperceptions. What’s NEXT? It’s literally in your hands.