I don't think there's too much question about Winston being a good player. I mean, he's not Andrew Luck, and right now I'd take Mariotta over Winston, but he's a solid pro prospect. He's big, has phenomenal arm strength, decent although not exceptional accuracy, and is one of the best college QBs at making his reads. He's looked a little shaky against some of the more unusual blitz packages, but that's probably a result of playing in a fairly weak conference. His technique is a little sketchy, but we're not in Tebowland. He can arc a little wide, which coaches at the next level will work on, and there's the strange thing with his little finger, but I'm not sure what can be done about that.
The ACC competition point is fair. I mean, so far in his career he's only really had one really difficult opponent, which was Auburn in the title game last year. It was easily his least impressive performance, but he won, so I don't know how much we can beat him up for that. This year's FSU team is weaker than last year's, but he has dragged them out of first half hole again and again late in games. The biggest questions about him for me relate to the off-field shenanigans.
I think the playoffs will give us a better read on FSU as a whole, rather than Winston. If he has a bad game in the semi and they go out, I'm not sure we can read too much into it. He'd still go top ten in the draft. I really have my fingers crossed that the Jets pick him. Wouldn't that be fucking hilarious? I mean, he's blatantly a Jet at heart. I'm assuming that Al's ghost won't have enough influence to bring him to Oakland. Surely they'll give Carr another go and take Leonard Williams.
