This had to be the easiest transfer decision in the history of transfer decisions.
Former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts is the most accomplished graduate transfer quarterback since graduates were allowed to transfer without sitting out a year. (Yes, this includes when Russell Wilson left NC State for Wisconsin.) Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley has coached two consecutive transfer quarterbacks to the Heisman Trophy. I imagine the conversation went a little like this…
Riley: So?
Hurts: Uh, yeah.
O.K., they probably said a little more than that. But the end result was the same. Hurts is headed to Norman, where Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray just won the Heisman and where NFL coaches have beaten a well-worn path in the past 18 months to pick Riley’s brain with the hope of borrowing something they could install in their own offenses at that level.