Someone convince me that the new QB transfers

Coaches yes to an extent, they believed leaving it in the air gives them a competitive advantage and they’re not going to publicly s**t on their players’ abilities. The coaches also said that they all saw one QB take a significant step ahead and that the QB that won the job was clearly and unanimously the best. Every insider said that it was rising and it wasn’t close.

Although true, you’re missing crucial points, the kid is a FRESHMAN, he has multiple years to develop as a passer, he’s not a grad transfer that has one year to play, he gets plenty of time in the system. The kid is a freak athlete, who just a year ago was a top 100 high school player in the nation. He’s also recovering from ACL tear which put him at a disadvantage in his battle at Texas. Bentley had a major confidence issue, which explains why he would look really good at some moments, and terrible at others. JQJ is a baller, no matter where we would put him on the field he’ll find success, and hopefully it’s at QB.

Chinng: while your skepticism is warranted, you should really check out Brewer’s highlight package which is on another thread. This isn’t your usual Utah transfer QB:

Kendall Thompson – never got a chance at Oklahoma because he couldn’t complete a pass.
Troy Williams – all the talent in the world, never got a chance at UW because he couldn’t complete a pass.
Bentley – completion % went down, interceptions went up every year at South Carolina.

Those transfers were exactly the same QB at Utah as they were at their previous stops. If that holds, we can expect something around 13/20, 200 yards, 1.5 TD, .6 INT per game. Whit wins 9 games next year with those #’s. If Brewer, or whoever beats him out, does better Utah is in the CCG again.

Chinng: I think you make a very fair point. And I also believe that part of the blame rests on our offensive coaching. IMO, Development U is mainly attributed to the defensive side of the ball. That’s where the overwhelming majority of our NFL talent has come from. We have traditionally done an outstanding job with RBs but I think that’s because our identity is being a smash mouth football team. I think you could make the argument that we ask an awful lot of our QBs because we expect them to only throw the ball 20 times a game and have a completion percentage of 65+%. When they are only throwing the ball that many times, a lot of those throws end up being 3rd and long situations where our run game has gotten stopped. Tyler Huntley ran our system exceptionally well with efficiency numbers we haven’t seen in a long time. I hear the analysts saying all the time that Utah needs to be able to stretch the field vertically. And yet we rarely take shots down the field. So I don’t know if the problem is more on our QBs lacking the talent or more on our coaches not giving them the opportunities and development needed to be more successful, or if it’s a little bit of both. I will say that I have way more optimism in young transfers (freshmen types) like Rising & Jackson than I do with grad transfers. I feel like the transfer portal is a graveyard where washed up grad transfers go to die. The young kids, though, have all the opportunity ahead of them to develop and ball out. You can’t tell me that Jackson and Rising all of the sudden lost all of that 4* talent coming out of high school from watching on the sidelines their 1st year in college. Because between JQJ, Rising, and Costelli we have some super talented young QBs to work with…especially JQJ, his talent level is off the charts. The question for me is, can our coaches develop our young QBs and turn one of them into a superstar?