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Back to McKee, an analysis posted here recently projected McKee or #10 in the Pac this year. I think he finishes in the top 3 if he isn't injured. That must mean I'm expecting the OL to be better, much better. Hmmmm.

#10 is an absurd place to put McKee. Wilner had us #8 in his QB depth chart rankings, which are always goofy because he insists on heavily weighing backup QBs, even though QBs rarely get hurt.

Jake Curtis had us #6 at QB. I think that's reasonable. McKee was #6 last year in Total QBR. Two of those who were ahead of him last year, Jayden Daniels and Anthony Brown, are gone, but two who were ahead of McKee, Caleb Williams and Bo Nix, transferred in, as did FCS super star Cameron Ward.

The top three in the Pac-12 seems fairly obvious - prohibitive favorite or conference player of the year Caleb Williams, outstanding college player Dorian Thompson-Robinson, and reigning Pac-12 first team QB Cameron Rising. It's bold to put anybody but those three at the top but I do think it's reasonable to think McKee has the talent and supporting cast to leapfrog somebody.

Curtis' list had the three obvious ones up top, followed by Ward (who really was dominant as a freshman at Incarnate Word and has lots of reason for optimism getting to plug and play with his coach who came with him), reigning Pac-12 freshman of the year Jayden de Laura, and McKee.

My view on McKee is that he's going to be honorable mention all-conference, somewhere in that top six most likely, but I would be surprised if he's first or second team all-conference. Williams, DTR, and Rising is just so much star power returning. But McKee has talent and arguably the best supporting cast in the conference outside Williams, so I won't laugh at those who put McKee second or third. I say competing with Ward and Oregon State's Chance Nolan for fourth. I'm less bullish on Nix and de Laura than some.

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Back to McKee, an analysis posted here recently projected McKee or #10 in the Pac this year. I think he finishes in the top 3 if he isn't injured. That must mean I'm expecting the OL to be better, much better. Hmmmm.

#10 is an absurd place to put McKee. Wilner had us #8 in his QB depth chart rankings, which are always goofy because he insists on heavily weighing backup QBs, even though QBs rarely get hurt.

Jake Curtis had us #6 at QB. I think that's reasonable. McKee was #6 last year in Total QBR. Two of those who were ahead of him last year, Jayden Daniels and Anthony Brown, are gone, but two who were ahead of McKee, Caleb Williams and Bo Nix, transferred in, as did FCS super star Cameron Ward.

The top three in the Pac-12 seems fairly obvious - prohibitive favorite or conference player of the year Caleb Williams, outstanding college player Dorian Thompson-Robinson, and reigning Pac-12 first team QB Cameron Rising. It's bold to put anybody but those three at the top but I do think it's reasonable to think McKee has the talent and supporting cast to leapfrog somebody.

Curtis' list had the three obvious ones up top, followed by Ward (who really was dominant as a freshman at Incarnate Word and has lots of reason for optimism getting to plug and play with his coach who came with him), reigning Pac-12 freshman of the year Jayden de Laura, and McKee.

My view on McKee is that he's going to be honorable mention all-conference, somewhere in that top six most likely, but I would be surprised if he's first or second team all-conference. Williams, DTR, and Rising is just so much star power returning. But McKee has talent and arguably the best supporting cast in the conference outside Williams, so I won't laugh at those who put McKee second or third. I say competing with Ward and Oregon State's Chance Nolan for fourth. I'm less bullish on Nix and de Laura than some.