And you know that he's "fvcking terrible" how exactly? His D-1 video is non-existent. We haven't seen Smothers play and I doubt you've seen him even scrimmage in practice so we have no way of knowing what Smothers will be like against P5 competition. I wasn't guessing where Ruder would land. That's why the ❓ in the thread title. The difference between him and Wilson is that I think Ruder could have as many as 3 years of eligibility left with a redshirt year, an injury redshirt year and then this year not counting. You do realize that Frost got a former 4 star WR to walk on as a transfer as well right?
I was merely perusing the Rivals articles on portal QBs and saw this kid's name so I dug in to his profile a little. I remembered his name from back when he was in high school. He looks to me like he's every bit as intriguing as Bubba Starling and a much more likely possibility. I'm not sold on Haarberg and I find it hard to believe with the injuries to AM and LM that we wouldn't have seen Smothers late this year if he was doing well in practice. I think another scholarship QB from the transfer portal would be a reasonably logical idea. IF nothing else go find a kid who is willing to walk on as a grad transfer from a smaller program like the kid from USD did at WR. That worked out well for us.
How good of a passer is Haarberg? I would rather see a better passer and maybe Qb who can run a little, but is not necessarily a dynamic runner than a great runner and a mediocre passer.