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Hmm. Help me out here…

That’s the most we’re going to see Will Grier play for about a year. I mean, he’ll practice in 2016, but we’re not going to see that, and his first consequential football with WVU won’t come until next spring. So, have a look, and remember he was completing 65.8 percent of his passes and was 5-0 as a starter — and 4-0 against SEC teams — as a redshirt freshman QB for a team that was unbeaten and ranked No. 8 after six games last season.

He’s not bad. He is, I have to think, the most-talented quarterback on the roster. His credentials are significant, too. But I wonder, just how significant are they?

He set a national record as a junior when he passed for 837 yards (and 10 touchdowns) in a game. That was a state playoff game. Parade Magazine and the Maxwell Football Club — they hand out the prestigious Maxwell Award in college — named him the national high school player of the year as a senior in 2013. Mr. Football USA picked Grier as its top high school player, and 247 Sports and MAxPreps named him a first-team All-American.

And no wonder. He passed for 4,989 yards with country-high 77 touchdowns as a senior … and rushed for 1,251 yards with 13 touchdowns.

Again, we don’t know a lot right now. We don’t know when he’ll play next. We don’t know how he’ll deal with the time off or how the time off with treat him. So let’s not worry about that at all. Instead, let’s consider this, because this is something we can discuss since it’s already complete and thus open to discourse.

Does Grier have the greatest resume ever for a WVU quarterback? It’s certainly the best of any addition — recruit or transfer — in Dana Holgorsen’s tenure. It seemingly trumps Geno Smith. I’m thinking it’s better than another Florida transfer you may recall named Bobby Sabelhaus.

I’ll hang up and listen.