Opinion: The qb spot was always Jaden Daniels job to lose

Most players enter the transfer portal due to lack of playing time. Jaden Daniels was very much the exception to that rule, leaving a school where he was a three year starter to enroll in a school with a crowded qb group where supposedly there was an open battle to start. That’s rare.

While I do not know that Daniels was flat out promised the job, one has to believe that in order to entice him to transfer, somewhere along the way Daniels got the wink/nod that he would eventually be the starter at LSU.

Now that might not mean that Daniels could stink it up in practice and be the starter. But it might well be the case that despite statements to the media that the qb job was a wide open race, the job was always Daniels to lose.

This is not based on any inside info, more on common sense. Playing time is the holy grail for a college qb. Would Daniels have left a sure starting position without some expectation he would start. I doubt it.

On the other hand,, if it is the case that Daniels got zero assurance he would probably be the starter, then Daniels must be a supremely confident young man to risk a transfer to a school with the talent in the LSU qb room to enter into a true competition to start.

One thing I think is reasonably certain, Daniels didn’t transfer in to be a back up. Whether the job was promised to him or not, he thought we was transferring in to start. No three year starter picks a transfer school where I’ve doubts he will start.