Your team's backup QB is practically irrelevant, at least up until the moment he becomes your team's new most important player.
Just ask Oregon. The Ducks were a top-10 team with a healthy Vernon Adams Jr. at QB last year. Without him, they were mush -- see the second half of the Alamo Bowl against TCU.
This also is pretty timely as Washington State backup QB, Peyton Bender, will be academically ineligible this fall, as first reported Cougfan.com and confirmed by ESPN.com. So it becomes even more pressing for the Cougars to protect All-Pac-12 QB Luke Falk this fall.