I think the hope was to show up big this year, get a nice recruiting haul based on the success and lessen the rebuild next year. Wilson was not supposed to play as much this year... I believe the goal was to redshirt him or at a minimum play him sparingly in clean up at end of games... but there is no question he was considered the future of the program.
I'm really starting to believe he transfers... it's such a mess, he went there because of Ludwig, with Ludwig gone I have to believe he is done there. I think Utah is going to see a lot of transfers out.
Utah is going to hit the transfer portal hard this up coming year. I wouldn't be surprised to see Utah pull 30+ from the transfer portal, 2 or 3 of which will be QB's.