Arizona quarterback Khalil Tate has been operating at less than 100 percent with an injured ankle this season.
A: It’s unfortunate that Tate has played five games. The NCAA now allows a football player to redshirt after a maximum of four games. This would be a good time to redshirt Tate. Imagine how effective he could be as a fifth-year senior in 2020.
There are two problems with that. One is that Tate, as with most Power 5 conference quarterbacks, has a personal timeline at which he hopes to arrive in the NFL. The second is that putting Tate on pause for a game or two would likely mean Arizona would lose to Cal and Utah.
Given what we’ve seen through five games, Arizona will probably lose to Cal and Utah no matter who plays quarterback.
