Top Blue Jays prospect also a football standout

Baseball and football have long been intertwined throughout America's history. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the son of a former Major Leaguer.

Many other athletes have succeeded in both sports. The most famous of these, of course, is Bo Jackson. There's also Deion Sanders, the only person to ever appear in both a Super Bowl and a World Series.

In 1992, Brian Jordan signed a multi-year deal with the St. Louis Cardinals, leaving football behind after two seasons with the Atlanta Falcons.

Kyler Murray chose the NFL but made history as the only athlete to be a first-round draft pick in both baseball and football.

Then there's Juaron Watts-Brown.

The Blue Jays' third-round pick was a standout high school quarterback. In his final two seasons at Hanford High School in California, Watts-Brown racked up 3,260 passing yards, 1,564 rushing yards, and 57 touchdowns.

A torn labrum seemed to end his football dreams, leading Watts-Brown to focus on college baseball, where he redshirted at Long Beach State.

While we may never see Watts-Brown in the NFL like Jackson or Sanders, he joins a long list of athletes who excelled in multiple sports.

Watts-Brown is currently one of 18 MLB prospects who were standouts in high school or college football.

If all goes well for Watts-Brown, Blue Jays fans will hopefully see him on a big league mound in a couple of years.