talent, as he showed during his junior season in high school (before his coach was replaced), and as is obvious from watching his filmed workouts. He also has the right personality to play the position. The problem is that he was never given a chance to play.

Zac Wilson and Jaren Hall only became as good they were by playing enough to make big mistakes and learn from them, and Wilson's mistakes cost us entire games early on. I think the biggest hole in Roderick's coaching ability is that because he never played QB, his play calling is designed to get WRs open, but doesn't pay sufficient attention to whether the blocking scheme and predictability of the play gives the QB enough time, and the right sight angle, to find the open guy. His run playcalling is even more predictable, unfortunately, and that makes the QB's job even harder.

We've increasingly seen in recent years that great QBs get recruited to schools that wait too long to develop them, and those QBs end up transferring. Three years in a row, transfer QBs won the Heisman who weren't getting the right opportunities at their first schools.

I also think that in Burton's case, it's a mistake to judge him by how widely recruited he was or wasn't. All-Pro Josh Allen came out of high school with no offers at all, and after playing 2 years of JC ball, he had only one offer--from Wyoming. QB, more than any other position, requires playing time, and lots of it with the right coaching, to allow the QB to demonstrate his true ability. I hate to see Burton go, but I hope he gets the right oppoutunity wherever he ends up.