[Cactus Jack]

He’s a5 year college player, if he’d been Any good he’d already been in the NFL

Everyone wants an NFL caliber QB but there are less than 100 of them in the world at a given time. Maybe 10-12 college QBs per year will ever sniff being one (even as a third stringer).

It's even tougher to find one willing to transfer in to Kentucky instead of staying at their own program or going to an Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida, Texas A&M or TCU. All of those teams took QBs out of the portal with the expectation that they would be their QB1 this past offseason too.

Outside of Uiagalelei, Hartman, or Shedeur Sanders, Kentucky did about as well as they could have. DJ was going back to the West Coast, Hartman wasn't picking UK over Alabama or Notre Dame, and Sanders wasn't considering anything but Boulder anyway.

Maybe Card, Slovis, Max Johnson, Mertz, or one of the Ole Miss backups ends up doing better, but I don't know that any were in "must take him over Leary" territory based on the information available at the time, even if they were willing to come.