Former KSU QB Will Howard to OSU

Cool. A guy who threw for less yards, worse percentage, less ypa, in a completely different offense. I’m sure it’ll be fine. 

Yawn. This is a B/B+ pickup. Won’t move the needle. If he entered the draft this year, he’d be late-rounder or undrafted. 

He also played in the no-defense BIG 12.

Hope he's good at running backwards. We'll send Mason and Ken over to say Hi!

I suppose this is a threat since whoever wins the rushing total wins the game BUT I he feels like a square peg in a round role. 

Let me guess, the 9 5* star QBs he was portaled in over are fine with this and will all bide their time?

Looking at his game by game stats it is interesting his best stats came against @Texas and @Missouri both in losing efforts.  I am not going to bother to look into the details of this as Grant and Graham are going to eat him alive but I imagine he has some Stat Padford going on there where his team was down and he was slinging it all over the barn.   In many other games his stats were sub 60% completion rate.  Does have some decent legs on him at least. 

Also playing against Big 12 defenses ain't exactly playing Big 10 defenses.

Any port in a storm, I guess.  I'm sure it will be lots of fun there, look how much fun the guys leaving had.

Shemp Howard would put up better numbers.

Now Curly, I might worry.

I hate him already.

So he would be the Manhattan Transfer if he busts this move.  Not even going to speculate on the ripple effects this might have in the future of the Big 12 and on Ryan Day's shelf life.  

Hmmm that’s an oddly large amount of detail to get on this topic. Almost sounds like OSU staff is feeding Thamel info. Wonder if that is the case for another notable topics /s

This one was incredibly obvious after the very first drive of the bowl game.

I wonder if that Devin Brown kid transfers (not like they'd care, they have the HS kid coming in).

Only problem is Brown is hurt, so he may have to stick it out through the spring. Although if I were him, I'd take my talents to Athens, Ohio...try to do well there for a couple years and just grad transfer back to a P5 for your final year.

Who cares he’s another McCord, good for 〽️.  

Did anyone tell him that Fleming and Harrison are gone?  Smith might be a talented frosh, but he is definitely not MHJ and probably just offsets Fleming.

I will not be surprised if OSU’s offense struggles all year after watching the Cotton Bowl with no MHJ.

OSU had to throw out a big bag of money to get him from going to USC. I think McCord was a better QB.

Its one thing to be QB for Kansas state. Its another to be QB for osu and a shit fan base that just ran out their starting QB because he wasnt perfect, and deal with the pressure to snap the Michigan losing streak.  Good luck dealing with that Mr. Howard.

Lincoln Riley was recruiting him hard so he liked him enough to think he can fit in his system as a passer. If both coaches thinks that he's good enough to be in their system, then he's better than his stats would indicate. He definitely has the size and athleticism to do damage on the ground. 

He'll look great right up until Thanksgiving or so