I said the same thing about Jalen Hurts. I think the difference is Hurts realized it when Tua won the starting job. Instead of pouting he got to work and was a great team player. When he was needed against Georgia he came thru BIG TIME. Hurts was a different player his senior year than he was as...
I thought that Simpson would be starting by the South Carolina game. But he had a good game against UGA that seemed to give him a free pass the rest of the season. He had 6 games where he passed for less than 200 yards passing. In the last 6 games he only had touchdown passes against Mercer (2)...
I don't think Riley would be able to transform Milroe. Jalen Hurts took a year working on his skills backing up Tua before he went to Oklahoma. Jalen Hurts showed a lot of improvement in that year when he filled in for Tua especially against Georgia.
I think the biggest thing for me is that Milroe is able to pad his stats against the weaker teams while the good defenses with a good DC for the most part shut him down. I can't explain how he torched Ga last year and the first half of the game this year.
I told friends that I thought Ty would be starting by the Tennessee game. I think the first half bought him time and he did just enough in spots to keep the job.