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Is Prescott SEC's best quarterback?

JUN 03, 2015 12:07a ET

JUN 03, 2015 12:07a ET

Blake Sims, Nick Marshall and Bo Wallace are gone. Kenny Hill, too. Starting experience at quarterback is lacking across the conference.

And then there's Dak Prescott, a Heisman candidate throughout last season (he finished eighth in the voting) who passed up the NFL draft to return to Mississippi State for his senior season. There's little argument that he's the most proven QB in the SEC going into the season ... but is he the best?

That's a question debated this week by two of ESPN's SEC writers, and the long and short of the back-and-forth is this: "He's not just the best at the position in the SEC, he's right there in the conversation for the best in the country.