Faizon Brandon Has to be coming in as true freshman starter no doubt.

[CAVPUT]

Hand the keys to GMac, and get a portal back up in case GMac goes down. One year rentals aren’t the long term answer. JMO

Nah. Go for the best you can get.

 

[chrisvannoy]

3 of the last 4 QBS to win the Heisman were transfers and if Mendoza wins it this year 4 out of 5. Just my opinion but with the portal and NIL the way it is now, that looks to be the future of handling starting QBS. Let someone else bring them in, put size on them, teach them the basics against lesser competition and then bigger schools go buy them for a 1 or 2 year deal.

 

[jeff1vol]

He’s too elite to redshirt.

Nico was supposed to be as well. Recruiting rankings are a crap shoot.

 

[Butch s]

Simply not gonna happen. Heup doesn't start true freshmen. And true freshmen are not able to run his offense. G-Mac will be the guy next year, unless Josh goes for another portal veteran. And hopefully George understands the playbook more than Nico did.

Hopefully he gets meaningful snaps this year. Better to know now if he can handle, as opposed to finding out game 1 next year

 

[busper]

And you base this opinion on what???

Mercklinger

 

[TENNESSEESLIM]

Joey will get one more. If he does it’s him.

 

[Butch s]

He inherited Hooker from Pruitt. Joey was the only option he had given the timing of Nico leaving. It was akin to the last gal in the bar at 2am. She's the only choice or you go home alone. To my mind, Heupel has yet to land a QB that fits his system and has excelled in it .

We wouldn’t have even known about hooker if Milton didn’t get hurt

 

[TJSVOLS]

Mercklinger

Transfer portal, McIntyre, you really don’t have to know a lot about football to understand that you don’t start a true freshman in the SEC unless it’s an absolute have to.

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

Exactly how I feel!

There's plenty of doubt on that prediction

 

[Butch s]

If he hasn't landed a QB that fits his system then that says a lot. Hooker fit it well and Joey fits it decent. If we had to take a QB in the portal when we have Merk that's been here a couple of yrs and if he hasn't learned the system then that does speak volumes and not in a good way.

I guess he didn’t know hooker fit his system until Milton got hurt. Kinda just fell in his lap

 

[BernardKingGOAT]

I guess he didn’t know hooker fit his system until Milton got hurt. Kinda just fell in his lap

And then he developed him for the next season. Hooker got drafted because of Heupel. He's never going to see any meaningful time in the NFL because he doesn't have the skill set. It's not because he's not getting a chance

 

[CAVPUT]

We wouldn’t have even known about hooker if Milton didn’t get hurt

Heupel and co had a first hand look at Hooker and still decided they needed to go get Milton. Won't lie....that along with Nico is making me question this staff's QB eval and development abilities. And that's the last position on the team I thought we'd struggle with.

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

Nico was supposed to be as well. Recruiting rankings are a crap shoot.

Evidently, being able to develop young recruited QBs with Hype and staff, is a crap shoot as well.