If the coaches are blowing up Beau to help Critchlow potentially move all the way up to 3rd on the depth chart behind a kid who is a freshman - and he's in a battle there with another freshman kid who just got home from his mission - then the coaches are doing it wrong. It's going to take FOREVER to get his guy in position to play.
Now - if someone Tonya Hardings Wilson or Mangum over the next couple of weeks, and the other mysteriously withdraws while vaguely mentioning "my family just needs me at home supporting them right now" - then I might start to get on your conspiracy train.