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Ya Edwards is the guy that gives me the heeby-jeebies,inside/outside down field catches - tough to matchup. I'd spy him

something to consider- Donovan Edwards missed the UConn game and the Maryland game with a knee injury and only had 15 carries for 90 yards in the 2 OOC creampuff games to start the season he played in...he barely played vs Neb and missed the Illinois game bc of a hand injury- which means he did virtually all of his damage vs P5 teams despite dealing with a nagging knee injury and playing the last 3 games of the season with a cast on his broken right hand. He's right handed. Still averaged 7.5 YPC and racked up 991 yards rushing- with the bulk of that coming in games vs OSU/PSU/Purdue (B1G West champ)/TCU. Not exactly like he was padding stats vs creampuffs.

He is being criminally slept on right now- kid is 100% healthy- no knee issue and no cast on his right hand- and he's about to destroy the B1G- and they'll actually be able to use him in the passing game where he is a ridiculous mismatch now that he's got two hands.

Tommy Nobis is way underrated,he was right there with Butkus even quicker going sideline-sideline. And IMHO Horns wins it's 2nd NC under Mack if McCoy isn't hurt vs Bama

JJ had better stats in his first year starting than 3 of those guys and outside of Caleb Williams not sure any one of those guys is more physically gifted than him in terms of size/athletic ability + arm talent. 

maybe he thinks the O-coordinator will just run the ball off tackle too much?

could be. 

I want to say I heard/read that JJ was the #1 rated passer in CFB last year on play-action passes and the #1 rated passer throwing on the run. From the pocket? He was only #55th rated passer. Middle of the pack. A lot of his from the pocket struggles were JJ holding onto the ball too long, being late with reads/processing, sloppy with his drops and footwork. All things a young QB can fix with experience/reps/practice/discipline. 

JJ had some serious high level WOW moments in his first year starting. Other moments that were meh...and others that were disastrously bad (late pick 6's vs TCU). It's not a situation like Cade McNamara or other QBs that Jeem had where they just didn't have the talent or ability. JJ got shitloads of talent. Just has to get better, and he's got plenty of room for improvement. 

Things to consider: JJ was only a true soph and in his first year starting. JJ did not get #1 reps in bowl practices as a true frosh- which would've been a big boost to a young players development. JJ also missed all of '22 spring ball (highly valuable to young QB trying to develop and build rapport with his WRs/TEs) because of a shoulder injury, and then in '22 fall camp he was splitting #1 reps with the incumbent starter Cade McNamara. Again....something NOT conducive to a young, green QB trying to get better and build rapport with his WRs/TEs. 

Fast forward to JJ had an entire bowl practice getting the #1 reps. JJ was healthy this spring ball and got all those reps, and JJ will go through fall camp not having to split reps- he's going to get all the #1 reps. He SHOULD be able to improve his reads/processing time and build more rapport and timing with his WRs/TEs. I'll be pretty shocked if he doesn't make a considerable jump this year. 

Tommy Nobis is way underrated,he was right there with Butkus even quicker going sideline-sideline. And IMHO Horns wins it's 2nd NC under Mack if McCoy isn't hurt vs Bama

Butkus was a 2-time AA in college, at CENTER. He also played linebacker.

He was lineman of the year in 1964.

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