Jalen will rack up video-game numbers at OU.
Part of that is because he's improved. More is because neither OU nor anybody else in the Big 12 play defense.
Jalen has always torn up defenses that are average or worse. His issue has been the lack of ability to make good defenses respect the pass. So against a D that is already stout, he becomes one-dimensional, and it's death.
Fortunately for him, his own team's lack of defense will put him on the field needing to score a lot. More fortunately for him, no defenses in the Big 12 have seen anything like Jalen. Get prepared for it...he's going to be in New York for the Heisman presentation.
None of that means he's suddenly gotten elite. It means he's playing in the right system, for the right team, in the right conference.
We would shut him down.
Part of that is because he's improved. More is because neither OU nor anybody else in the Big 12 play defense.
Jalen has always torn up defenses that are average or worse. His issue has been the lack of ability to make good defenses respect the pass. So against a D that is already stout, he becomes one-dimensional, and it's death.
Fortunately for him, his own team's lack of defense will put him on the field needing to score a lot. More fortunately for him, no defenses in the Big 12 have seen anything like Jalen. Get prepared for it...he's going to be in New York for the Heisman presentation.
None of that means he's suddenly gotten elite. It means he's playing in the right system, for the right team, in the right conference.
We would shut him down.