last 25 years — particularly when you’re a 4 star rated recruit or higher.

He is obviously young but it’s not unprecedented for 4 star players to start as freshman. There have been many who have and many who do right now across college football.

If Wilson was not ready to start as a freshman then he was very clearly overhyped out of high school and should have been an average 3 star rated QB but that’s not where analysts had him evaluated.