re: Eliah Drinkwitz on one-year-rental QBs

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Look at Joe Burrow -- it took him two years, too. The one-year plug-and-play has not had a whole lot of success. I think some of these programs are going to be taking big risks.

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Experience as a starter before transfer and when transfer can practice with new team plays into it.

JB was probably the exception as he had barely played at Ohio State much less being a starter in any games there (never played in a 1st half in college before 2018), was a graduate transfer who didn’t start working out with team until some point in the summer of 2018, and inherited a predictable offense.

In 2018 LSU still beat 4 teams ranked in the top 10 at time of the games (2 at neutral sites & 1 on the road). If something closer to 2019’s offense and play calling were in place his first year he probably would have been one and done.

I get his premise, but judging every QB transfer’s first year by JB’s second year is a high standard of success that many good QBs that stayed at same school for 3 or 4 years never achieved. To a lesser degree the same goes with JD, Penix, and Nix in 2023 (lesser with only Penix having chance for championship & perfect season but he also tailed off too much towards end of season for true heisman type numbers).