Ideally, he would stay another year and finish out his eligibility. His arm talent and mobility (he's run for over 1,300 yards in his career) are an interesting combo, but there are rough edges to his game that need full-on sandblasting.

If you squint a little bit, you can definitely see the outline of a franchise NFL quarterback. He shows the arm strength (all the time) and accuracy (some of the time) to make defenses wrong, while working with receivers who don't leave much margin for error. He's not just a thrower, either -- there is plenty examples of him reading the entire field, and going down his progressions or manipulating the defense to come back to his first option. That's exciting.

His lack of consistency is the reason he should stay. In 2017 his bad stretches lasted entire games; there weren't mediocre, they were abominations (ie barely completing 40 percent of his passes). This season it's more of a series to series thing, where he'll be late on his throws, or get cloudy field vision, or just pull a WTF move. Nobody plays perfect, but that kind of variance is not what organizations build their teams around.

His position class is wide-open this year, however, so who knows what will happen. I'd be modest with expectations if he declares -- the inconsistency is scary.

+ Good-sized (6'5, 220) and moves well within the pocket or scrambling out of it
+ Noticeable jolt to his passes; arm holds up when he takes a direct hit (no follow through) or gets his legs cut from under him
+ His coach is one of the best quarterback whisperers in football -- he has 4 Super Bowl wins on his students' resumes -- so his play-design knowledge and position detail is ahead of most
+ Long-strider and dangerous enough to earn respect in zone-read game

- Accuracy can be spotty; he will look fantastic for a quarter then start putting balls in different zip codes
- Can "over-process" his progressions, and flat out miss the best option the first time
- Roller coaster performer who plays the position that needs the most consistency