CBS Sports names Ohio State’s Justin Fields best college football quarterback playmaker

Barrett Sallee of CBS Sports has named Ohio State’s Justin Fields as the best returning playmaker at the quarterback position.

Barrett Sallee on Justin Fields

Ohio State QB Justin Fields top 5 NFL draft pick per Mel Kiper, Jr.
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What Sallee says:

Hot-shot quarterbacks need to play in systems that highlight their skills in a wide variety of ways. No system does it better, and no player has better skills, than Ohio State and Fields. The junior threw for 3,273 yards, rushed for 484 more and totaled 51 touchdowns. He went to New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist and led his team to the College Football Playoff in his first season as a starting quarterback. He did all of that despite heading to the bench with big leads multiple times during the 2019 season. Now that Fields is entrenched under center and coach Ryan Day has championship-experience, expect Fields to flirt with 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in 2020 — provided he plays a full four quarters most of the time.”

 

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