For every negative, there's a, "Yeah but...." Likewise for every positive, there's also a, "Yeah but..."
There's no question in my mind that Tua has a higher ceiling as a passer. I seriously doubt that Tua will ever be the runner Jalen is today.
Can Tua lead? We don't know. We do know Jalen can.
Can Jalen close the gap as a passer? We know he has. We're pretty sure that, barring injury, Tua won't overtake him overall, at least in 2017. What we don't know is whether Jalen has closed the passing gap enough to make 2018 a moot point.
But we're about to find out. Once opposing defenses diagnosed Jalen's weakness between the hashes (about games 7 or 8), the mediocre ones couldn't do anything about it, but the good ones made him look mediocre at best.
Florida State is reputed to have the best returning secondary around.
I really think that game comes down to one question: Can Jalen Hurts achieve a 50% completion rate to the TE or RB, crossing between the hashes, 5-10 yards downfield from the LOS?
If he can, odds are we win comfortably, unless penalties or turnovers get out of hand. If he can't, flip a coin...or maybe 60/40 edge to FSU.
We absolutely must force FSU to defend the whole field. If we do that, we'll be fine. If we allow them to ignore half of it (as we did against Clemson in the NCG), we'll have dug ourselves a deep, deep hole.