Bentley Does Not Suck

To channel Bill Marcroft, “Check it!”

Next season, Utah will have:

Charlie Brewer, 3* transfer from Baylor, four year starter, Senior.
Cam Rising, 4* transfer from Texas, RS Sophomore
Ja’Quinden Jackson, 4* transfer from Texas, Freshman
Peter Costelli, 4* HS recruit from California, true Freshman
Cooper Justice, 2* or 3*, from Lake Oswego, OR, Freshman
Bryson Barnes, NR, from Milford, UT, walk-on Freshman

Committed to Utah in late 2020 for 2022:

JP Zamora, 3* QB, projected to be the best HS QB in the 2022 Class from the state of Washington.

He is listed on Utah’s roster as a SO. So I assume he returns a SO.

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Since you’re including walk-ons, I’m pretty sure Robinson, the PWO from Wisconsin is still around. He redshirted last year and is still showing on the 2020 roster.

The plot thickens!!!

I’ve heard there is staff concern that his labrum may never be the same. He may be Jordan Wynn. Hope not, but that is the concern.

The Jordan Wynn thing was so weird. The coaches kept saying he was 100% but anyone could clearly see he was 50% at best. Really made me question our offensive coaches’ abilities.

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I would imagine the coaches are going by what the Docs & training staff told them.

I just want to be on record stating, that no matter how you feel about his on field performance, I have really liked his off-the-field leadership especially with the BLM stuff over the summer. The kid will be successful in life and I wish him the best no matter what he chooses.

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Rehabbing a shoulder is tough, takes a lot of time, and you never get back to what you had prior to the surgery. Hopefully Rising can make it back, but the odds of this fall aren’t good.

That said, Alex Smith came back from the most gruesome injury I have ever seen anyone come back from.

Hedging the bets never hurts, though.

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As of now, next season, Utah will have:

Charlie Brewer, 3* transfer from Baylor, four year starter, Senior.
Cam Rising, 4* transfer from Texas, RS Sophomore
Ja’Quinden Jackson, 4* transfer from Texas, Freshman
Peter Costelli, 4* HS recruit from California, true Freshman
Cooper Justice, 2* or 3*, from Lake Oswego, OR, Freshman
Carter Robinson, NR, from Wisconsin, walk-on RS Freshman
Bryson Barnes, NR, from Milford, UT, walk-on Freshman

Saw this earlier. Very apropos.

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Perfect.

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That should be posted on the back of every stadium chair at R-E Southern Stadium in Provo.

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that didn’t take long

I hope he does well.
Almost none of us will ever have opportunity through celebrity to make such an auspicious introduction and summarily inauspicious departure.
He did his very best and he will always be a Ute.

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he played well in stretches and horrible in stretches, just a weird year, in different circumstances he’s probably successful

Like most here, I’m not surprised. That said, I was impressed with his attitude, fight, and character. He did do some things, as previously mentioned, that were extremely valuable given our O-line’s growing pain. Certainly wish him success in the future.

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Agreed. And in response, here are my two comments/questions about Bentley:

  1. For the second time in recent years, the team voted as captain a QB that ultimately did not win the starting job. How did the locker rooms react to their captain not winning the starting position? Frustrated with the coaches or trusted the coaches and bought in? Curious how this situation (twice) went down in the locker room and how or if it affected chemistry.
  2. I think Bentley has the yips (like Mackey Sasser throwing seeds to second base but unable to throw the ball back to the pitcher, or Steve Sax, or Chuck Knoblauch). Seems like the easier the throw or more open the receivers were, the less accurate Bentley’s passes were. The missed TD from Colorado’s one-yard line to the wide-open, all alone, TE in the endzone comes to mind, as well as Covey nearly breaking in half due to monster hits on balls that were thrown behind him. Several other errant passes as well. But to his credit, Bentley also made several nice passes into tight windows. I don’t know how else to explain it.

Chalk it all up to 2020, I guess.

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He strikes me as one of those players who will tear it up if they find the right situation and leave everyone wondering where the hell he came from.

His high school highlights are very impressive, 60 yard bombs on a dime. Didn’t look like he had that arm here.