...that a player isn't going to make it until they've had some time in the system. We can look at Jake this year and last and say he'll never be a good QB but he's really still in his infancy at the position in D1 football.

John Beck was very inconsistent and played frightened in the pocket much like Jake. It wasn't until Beck's junior year that he actually started playing decently and his senior year before things really clicked (he was absolute money in the 31-17 win over a ranked TCU team in Ft Worth). Beck ended up being a 2nd round pick that year. He certainly didn't look like NFL material his first 2 years.

Moving a guy in their first fall camp out of the QB position and into another doesn't really constitute giving the guy a chance to make it at that position. In the end for guys like Kruger and Eric Weddle it works out great, but for many others it doesn't and what's more, you'll never know what they could've contributed if they had stayed at their former position.

Blechen, for example, is one of those tough smart cagey kind of guys, a real gamer. Had he stayed at QB he would've had a year to gain experience and then maybe this season he leads you to wins over Wash, ASU and Cal after Wynn goes down with injuries. Or it could've been Devonte Christopher leading the team as a 3rd year QB to wins in those games. Both were highly rated QB's coming out of H.S. in California.

That's the flipside of this that we'll never know.