At College Sports Wire, Patrick Conn offered his post-spring Pac-12 quarterback rankings, which are definitely worth your time. Patrick follows the sport very closely and is deeply informed about each and every conference. You can debate his rankings — though Caleb Williams being No. 1 is not one of them — but the larger point is that Patrick brings statistics and receipts to back up his claims. Those rankings offer a good lead-in to what we’re going to explore here.
Every quarterback, every athlete, faces questions heading into a new season. Plenty are valid and relevant, but one question stands above all others. Every athlete knows where he needs to improve. Every athlete knows the problem he must solve in order to rise to a higher level of excellence. In that vein, we present the most central questions facing each of the Pac-12’s projected starting quarterbacks for 2023: