Like most people on this board, I think Lawrence will be the starting quarterback come game 1. But I see a lot of people on Twitter/Duvalpride wanting to ship Minshew off to another team and I’m not sure I’m understanding. You’ve got a 6th round rookie that surely outplayed his draft position in just two years. He has starting experience and is on a rookie deal. I’m just not seeing a better alternative for a back-up quarterback. We don’t need more draft capital, we’d create an unnecessary hole, and we’d just have to sign someone who isn’t on a rookie deal. What’s the message? Outplay your draft position and you’ll get shipped off? I’ve heard that he’d want to start and my argument is “who doesn’t?”you’d think you want back ups to compete across the board. I know he’s not a 10 year veteran but he has starting experience but he is learning his 7th offense in 7 different years. So that adaptability could be useful for Bevell. The alternative is to draft someone in the later rounds and hope he’s good enough to have a 37-to-11 TD/Int ratio as a late rounder. And if we sign a back up like Ryan Fitzpatrick, what’s wrong with him being the 3rd stringer? We carried 3 last year and they were him, Mike Glennon, and Jake Luton. Compete for everything.

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