I was thinking about our quarterback situation relative to the national landscape.  Julian Sayin transferred after a cup of coffee in Tuscaloosa.  He sat during the title run, and now starts as a redshirt freshman.  He was brought along slowly and steadily, and has been sacked I think just once in three games.  Not too bad.  Too early to say how his year (and career) will go, but it's certainly a great start.  Let's look around the country.

Drew Allar has become known as the guy who can't make the play in crunch time.  I'm sure he's improved while at Penn State, but behind closed doors I can't imagine he's thrilled with his career there.

Cade Klubnik was a Heisman frontrunner.  Clemson is 1-2, their offense is stagnant, and he's barely improved (if at all) during his time there.

DJ Lagway was an off-season darling.  In his most recent outing he threw 5 INTs.

Quinn Ewers was the #1 QB in his class but left Ohio State.  He was perpetually injured at Texas and was drafted in the 7th round.

Meanwhile Arch Manning is...let's say "struggling".

Kyle McCord started here but transferred out.  He was okay-ish at Syracuse, and his replacement won the national championship.

Up north, Bryce Underwood is a promising recruit.  Instead of sitting for a year to acclimate to the new offense and college in general, he was thrown into action.  He went 9 for 24 at Oklahoma in his second week.  His coach needs at least a decent year to keep his job.  Maybe he'll be great by year-end, maybe not.  But who would you rather be right now, Sayin or Underwood?

It's very easy to screw up the QB position.  The worst run under Day included an above-average Big Ten QB (McCord) followed by a transfer QB (Howard) who will go down as an all-time favorite and effusively loves OSU.  We should be thankful.