As far as I'm concerned, Bentley should still be in high school right now, getting another year of playing experience and development in. I understand that he's had issues learning our offense, but if he is the type of QB that can come in and turn our entire season around as a True Fr, he would've already been playing by now. If he is head-and-shoulders above McIlwain talent-wise, our coaching staff would've put him in at some point when we've been nothing but stagnant on offense.

Unless Bentley is Deshaun Watson-esque, I don't see how starting him is better for our season with the OL issues that we have going on right now. Even Lamar Jackson would struggle with our OL. Will Bentley benefit from playing time for next season? Absolutely, but so does McIlwain, who has had to play behind our abortion of an OL all season. If we can fix our OL issues this upcoming offseason, I'll feel better knowing that we'll have a returning starter in McIlwain having to compete against a stud like Bentley.

The only thing that, in my mind, will justify Bentley starting on Saturday is that if McIlwain has undeniably regressed in practice throughout recent weeks. If there is no way he can even beat out Perry Orth for the starting role, then he should sit. I just haven't heard if that's the case.