Analysis: With Jacob Eason leaving for the NFL, let UW’s 2020 quarterback competition begin

Jacob Sirmon had a plan.

It was Dec. 13, 2015, and Sirmon — who had just wrapped up his sophomore season at Bothell High School — was ready to make a commitment. It didn’t matter that his signing day was still more than two years out. It didn’t matter that Washington’s next verbal commit in the 2018 class — his cousin, linebacker Jackson Sirmon — wouldn’t make that pledge until more than a year later. It didn’t matter that, as a strong-armed four-star quarterback, more scholarship offers were inevitable.

Jacob knew where he wanted to go. So why wait to commit to Washington?

“I know some people might look at this and think it’s a little early (to make a commitment), but to me it’s 100 percent —…