Quote Originally Posted by MetEdDawg View Post
Our OL was trash and Van Buren is a true freshman. He does need work. But put him in the same talent situation as Iamaleava at Tennessee and he would look a lot different.

He knows the offense and that has value and he clearly has arm talent. And a good P4 team will pay him some money to come in. And what we need right now is talent. Van Buren didn't change the game for us as much as he could have, but his surrounding parts forced us to not allow him to manage games but have to sling it all over the place.

Not a good recipe for a true freshman inserted 1/3 of the way into the year.
I don't disagree.
But in our building, he's behind Shapen and Taylor is the future.