I don't see the NCAA doing Coach Harbaugh any favors by granting immediate eligibility to Patterson or any other non-senior Ole Miss transfers. Whatever happens it will be an improvement.
we'll find out here pretty soon. I guess any players transferring are going to try to say that Hugh Freeze and Ole Miss lied and misled them to believe that the NCAA investigation had nothing to do with Freeze and his staff but were all related to Houston Nutt. A lot of the players trying to transfer have hired the same lawyer that Houston Nutt hired to successfully sue Ole Miss and Freeze. Nutt proved in court that Freeze/Ole Miss was lying. Ole Miss admitted this in court and settled with Nutt for millions of dollars. Freeze/Ole Miss was trying to pin it all on Nutt, when Nutt had nothing to do with it. Players who are trying to leave just might have a case.
Patterson is an upgrade over what they have had at the QB position. No disrespect to Peters, but he's only started 3 games and wasn't really asked to carry the entire offense on his back the way Patterson was asked to carry Ole Miss' offense. I really liked what I saw out of Peters, there were some nice flashes there but the body of work/sample size is very small. Peters was a lot further behind in his development that Patterson coming out of high school. Peters didn't get the kind of QB coaching/tutoring that Patterson did, and Peters played like 4 other sports in high school, he wasn't a year round football kid like Patterson.
Before his injury, Pro Football Focus had Patterson rated #3 in the FBS in terms of average yards per touchdown pass in 2017. He had 17 TD passes and they averaged 33.1 yards per TD pass thru 7 games.
Some other numbers on Shea: this year on passes of 10 yards of more, Patterson has a passer rating of 194.25, completing 50 of 90 pass attempts for nine touchdowns, four interceptions and 1,267 yards. Michigan's QB's were 37 for 114 for 903 yards, four touchdowns and six interceptions with a passer rating of 100.04. Against the blitz, Patterson's touchdown-to-interception ratio is 6.0, with 12 touchdowns and two interceptions.
By the way, Patterson is the highest rated QB recruit to come to the B1G since Ryan Mallett came to Michigan in 2007 and Terrelle Pryor came to Ohio State in 2008. Mallett was the #2 QB and #4 player overall, Pryor was the #1 QB and #1 player overall. Shea was the #1 QB and #3 player overall.