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USC football shouldn’t be in a rush to name JT Daniels the starting quarterback

The USC football program is undergoing its third quarterback battle of the decade, as they must replace the third pick in the NFL Draft, Sam Darnold. Poetically, there’s three clearly different options.

Matt Fink is your trusty redshirt sophomore game manager who must rely on efficiency. Jack Sears is a young-but-raw redshirt freshman in a similar mold to his San Clemente predecessor.

And then there’s true freshman JT Daniels, a man so confident in his ballyhooed arm he skipped his senior year of high school and tattooed Tommy Trojan down his leg.

Naturally, it’s taken no time for head coach Clay Helton to be called on by media and fans alike to ink-in the latter.