With all these QB commits, it puts us in a strange place of wanting Myles to have a great

season (obviously), but not too great that he goes to the NFL. I know a lot of people just assume he’ll come back for ‘21, but he’d be a 5th year SR, and a great, injury-free season may have him bouncing after ‘20. Which would be great for LSU, because it would likely mean we had a great season and proved the offense was no 1-hit wonder, helping recruiting even more across the board. However...

If Brennan does leave and has a healthy enough season to where we can redshirt both freshman QBs (I actually think they’re gonna have to pick one and let him play more than 4 games if only to strategically stagger them), then we’d have 3 freshmen (2 redshirts and Nuss a true) vying for the starting job in ‘21. Sure, it happens (most recently with Hurts/Tua), but most guys who grab the starting job that early are pretty entrenched for the next few years. So that would likely mean one of Johnson or Finley transfer (most have predicted the loser of that battle would wind up bouncing anyway), but no matter his feelings toward LSU in the summer of ‘20, could affect Howard’s decision when the actual time comes to sign. Then Manning right after him.

Please don’t get me wrong—this is a great problem to have—and will likely work itself out for the best. The fact we are recruiting QBs at such a high level considering our track record is absolutely amazing. I just think we really need Brennan to come back for ‘21 to keep everybody happy and hopeful, but it’s kinda weird hoping he’ll be great this year. Just not too great.