Command-and-timing quarterback whose four Syracuse starts before the Achilles showed what the full version looks like: 1,317 yards and a 10-to-2 line in barely a month of football, stacked on top of the poised relief work he gave Notre Dame (a 77-percent completion cameo season in 2023). The field-general reputation followed him from South Bend and the early 2025 numbers earned it. However, this is a five-career-start evaluation of a quarterback rehabbing a torn Achilles, and mobility was already his weakest card — minus-33 rushing yards even before the injury. An Achilles on a pocket passer with no escape dimension is a compounding concern, not a footnote. He says he's full-go for camp with no restrictions; what matters is whether the timing and rhythm that made the offense hum survive the surgery. Late-round-track grade for the 2027 class — a healthy, efficient full season restores the draftable floor.