In hindsight, Fagnano and Turner participated in Spring practice and Roberson did not. Roberson is coming off a major knee injury and to my eye, he does not seem to be 100% yet. And, before FIU, Roberson had not played a full football game since high school in 2018. So, I can see why they went with the more experienced and healthy Fagnano, but I agree that it didn't work out.
I’m dying to see Tucker McDonald take some snaps. The kid has a canon for an arm and by many accounts, regularly looks the best of all of them.
Why do you think they aren’t giving him a chance? They said they had a real QB competition this summer and I would assume he was a part of that. If he was clearly the best I don’t know why they wouldn’t have started him or placed him higher on the depth chart.
I’m not sure he would be better than Zion. My point is that, we seem to lack talent at QB. If McDonald is in fact the most talented, we should let him learn on the field. I have a big fear of sitting talented guys and trying to develop them in practice. The portal creates an easy opportunity for them to leave and go somewhere they’ll play. I think the days of developing players slowly are over. Especially, for guys with a lot of natural talent.
I think it’s the old, “let’s develop him” strategy. Maybe he just isn’t good enough, I don’t know. All I know is that options 1 and 2 aren’t the answer. Last season, Zion was ok, but his reads were slow and his running it was meh. Might as well try the remaining guy for a little bit and see if we have something.