In the wake of his 10-for-10, 121-yard, one touchdown passing performance on Saturday against Rutgers, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Tate Martell and his devoted followers. As high as I have been on Dwayne Haskins dating back to last season, the opposite has been true for Martell, due in no small part to his lackluster throwing performance in April’s spring game. And I am here today to say that was wrong, and very stupid of me.
I have said on The Hangout in the Holy Land podcast that he could not “pass his way out of a wet paper bag,” I have said and written that when Matthew Baldwin and Chris Chugunov were fully ready (either in terms of health or preparation) that they would be better suited to backup Haskins due to possessing a more similar skill set, and I even went so far as to predict that Martell would not be a QB at Ohio State next year, either via a transfer or a position change.