Youv’e all heard it by now, so let’s get this one out of the way: Senior QB Jake Bentley looked awful in the season opener, then proceeded to break his foot and will miss the rest of the season. Freshman QB Ryan Hilinski stepped up to bat in week 2 and hit 80% of his passes for nearly 300 yards, including a couple of absolute dimes.
Hilinski was a pretty highly ranked 4-star pro-style QB recruit out of California just half a year ago, but that’s about the extent we know about him. It could have been a one-game fluke against an overmatched Charleston Southern, or he might be the next coming of Stephen Garcia.