It's not often that you hear teams around college football admit that their system likely wasn't great for their quarterback.
For former Penn State quarterback Drew Allar, who was recently selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's almost impossible for any coach on Penn State's staff who coached him to suggest that it did a good enough job of giving him all the tools to succeed.
There were times when a lot of that was his fault, but the play calling was often the biggest problem in Happy Valley. With James Franklin and multiple offensive coordinators, it often felt like Penn State had its typical boring offense, and that was brought up a ton throughout the draft process.
Instead of hiding from the fact, even if it doesn't sound good to other recruits, Terry Smith, the former interim head coach at Penn State and a current assistant, admitted that there were times when the system wasn't necessarily built for Allar and that some of the decisions were taken out of his control.
“Yeah, you know, I’ve been known as the truth-teller here at Penn State. I think, unfairly to Drew, our system wasn’t built for him. It wasn’t made for him. Some of the decisions were taken out of his control,” Smith told Bob Pompeani and Joe Starkey of 93.7 The Fan, per 247.
Frankly, that was a reason why a lot of teams viewed Allar as a potential starting quarterback in the future, as if he can be as good as some expect him to be, there's reason to believe that he has one of the highest ceilings in this draft class.
While things didn't always go as planned at Penn State, the Steelers seemingly believe that he has a lot of upside.
"Well, I mean, we will find out about Will Howard, but I don’t think there is any question they still want to take a look at him," Gerry Dulac said while speaking on Randy Baumann and the DVE Morning Show. "You know, the feeling was they were only going to take a QB if they think he has higher upside than Will Howard. Well, apparently they think that with Drew Allar."