Eason medical redshirt scenario?

Lot's of stuffing flying around on about Eason's injury, ranging from "mild sprain" (out 2-3 weeks) to "moderate ACL sprain" (out 6-8 weeks) to "likely ACL tear" (out for season). I'm guessing that 99.9% of the people tweeting have not been in the examining room with the doctors and Eason's parents.

But let's just say that the nature of the injury is serious enough to result in him missing more than 7 or 8 games of the season. Would there be any point to him returning? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to take a medical redshirt and have three years of eligibility remaining?

This would be a sticky situation if he came back in 2018 with 3 years of eligibility while Fromm would presumably have been the starter all of this year (and also have 3 years eligibility left).

Under that circumstance, have to think Eason would be tempted to hit reset and start over at a West coast program.

Meanwhile, there are interesting recruiting implications to these scenarios.

This might all be moot and maybe Eason is healthy in 2 or 3 weeks...but it gets complicated if he isn't.

Ramsey is also a nightmare scenario for the backup option.