With a name like Broc Rutter, you’d better be a good athlete.



John Rutter was coaching football at St. Charles when they played Waubonsie Valley. The opposing quarterback’s name? Broc Kreitz.



So with that in mind, Rutter told his wife that when their son was born, he wanted to name him Broc, and “she was all about it.”



Broc has never met his namesake, but he already had some expectations to live up to with a father who played football and was a longtime athletic director and football and basketball coach in the area.



“People have said, ‘You have to be a quarterback with that name,’” Broc said.



Rutter did become a quarterback and he put up four seasons of ridiculous numbers at North Central College in Naperville. In his senior season, he led North Central to the Division III national title and he won the Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in D-III. Now, he is on...