If Eason does come back...

DerekJohnson said:

He'd be throwing to the likes of Puka and Bynum. It could put him in position to be a top 5 pick in the 2021 draft.

You mean throwing to Baccellia and Fuller wasn't ideal?

Not to mention Ty Jones, Marquis Spiker and Austin Osbourne. Finally.

Imagine if Skinny was throwing to Henry Ruggs, Jaylen Waddle, Jerry Jeudy and Devonta Smith... instead he was throwing the ball to 2 midgets with stones for hands who had 0 breakaway speed and absolutely no ability to make a contested catch.

Even more importantly he’d be in an offense with a credible chance if not sucking by design

FireCohen said:

Word is ty and Osborne are heavily leaning towards leaving

Dont blame Osborne. Puka and Bynum are pretty much inked in starters. Spiker is probably ahead of him, and then you have 3 stud freshmen coming in. What's Ty gonna do though, transfer and sit out another year to play 1? He might as well stick around and then grad transfer. I guess he can always claim he heard a fan make a racial slur and go for the hardship waiver.

RoadDawg55 said:

NEsnake12 said:

Everyone has such high hopes for Osborne because he was a good recruit, but only good relative to the dogshit WR recruiting we had before that.

Puka and all 3 WR’s we signed this year are better prospects than Osborne was. And Spiker/Bynum already beat him out for playing time.

Not all things were meant to be

This. While it’s frustrating we didn’t see him and Fuller and Baccallia kept their spots, he wasn’t a 5 star recruit like many make it feel like.

He was a low 4 star. Stuff like this will continue to happen. Hopefully it’s just not shitty players in front of them.

He wasn't really a low 4 star, pretty much midrange.

He was a good prospect and someone worth being excited about.

I think it's still way too early to completely right him off, but I feel the same way about Ty.

Look at Bynum, he didn't show anything until the second half of his third year in the program. We have a pretty good track record of the third year in Pete's program being the breakout year for receivers. Jones didn't get the third year because he was hurt, Osbourne didn't hit the third year yet.

LIPO.

AtomicDawg said:

RoadDawg55 said:

bananasnblondes said:

biak1 said:

This board has a doog boner for Osborne in no small part because of his legendary dad posting here. I admit I hope he stays to get a shot and show what he can do. Assume the new OC will have to re-recruit some guys for this very reason.

The true doog DDY legend is Ty Jones. Like Culp, I’ve seen enough to know he isn’t any damn good, just a physically gifted player who’s soft like Brayden Lenius.

The oft-criticized knock on Ty Jones during his recruitment by guys like Biggins and Huffman was that he should have been better than he was based on his height and speed. He could not get separation from shitty high school dbs and played lazy. That criticism, has strangely continued through his college career.

His entire film was either being open deep or catching a contested jump ball deep. After him, I’ll never tout a WR that doesn’t make plays with the ball in their hands. You gotta do something after the catch.

The strange thing was, Ty Jones high pointed very few balls even when given the opportunity at UW.

He has shown some flashes. I think he is better than lenius but the lack of separation is a real problem. He has always been inconsistent and I am not sure football matters to him all that much.

He is not an all conference level player but I think he can be a contributor if he wants to be. Some tbs’rs were irrationally optimistic about him.

I liked him a lot myself until I actually watched him play for UW. He’s soft and you’re right, he doesn’t get much separation.

HFNY said:

How did Ty Jones break his hand? Was it in an off-field incident?

Spiker started flashing in the 2nd half of the season.

The top 3 WRs will be Bynum, Puka, and Spiker. Ty Jones could be a graduate transfer but if I'm Osborne, I stick around to see if I can be the #4 WR as a RS-Soph. Not bad.

At the rate that WRs get injured, Osborne should see a lot of playing time as the #4 next year.

Unless Lake completely botches this OC hire, I think Eason would be wise to come back.

If he comes out this year, he's 100% behind Burrow and Herbert, and so long as Tua's injury doesn't scare teams off, he'll be behind him as well. At best he's looking at being the 4th QB off the board, which likely puts him in the 2nd round, if not lower.
Now if he comes back, and shows the kind of improvement that I think he's capable of in a better system, with a better group of receivers, I can see him climbing as high as the #2 QB in next year's draft class.
Barring some kind of crazy injury, Lawrence is going to be #1 off the board. That much is for certain, but after him, Fields is probably the next QB up right now and i'm really not sold on Fields as a passer at this point. With Eason's physical tools, combined with a more effective senior season, I could see him overtaking Fields for the #2 spot in next year's QB class.