Cardale Jones has become one of college football’s most fascinating players in 2015. Rare is the quarterback who gets benched despite going undefeated as a starter, and singular is that same quarterback whose first three career starts were wins in the Big Ten Championship Game, Sugar Bowl and National Championship Game.
Indeed, Jones’ stock had risen so high, so fast after last year’s miracle postseason run that a press conference he called to announce he was staying in Columbus had many convinced he was declaring for the NFL Draft — after just three starts in college — and even further, that he’d be a second or first-round pick.