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You'd have to compare him to Cam Newton, except Newton was a tier higher as a football player. Newton was run out of UF in disgrace after he got caught stealing someone else's laptop (and there were other stories told about him that never became media stories, just like with Winston). He managed to wiggle out of the pay-for-play controversy not because no money was solicited but only because the NCAA couldn't prove he knew it had happened.
The questions surrounding him were always about whether he was going to work hard and what kind of leader he could be, and if he would be out of trouble off the field. Obviously he just flipped his truck acting like a dumbass a couple of weeks ago and could have gotten himself killed, and his leadership has always been in question. With Newton though, his football character is fine. He has a passion for football and puts in the work because he wants to be regarded as greater than everyone else, so in that sense his ego and his pride work in his favor.
You don't get that idea about Winston. He comes off like a garden variety dumbass who is extremely entitled and knows nothing about professionalism, a child who you'll have to babysit and hope they stay out of trouble, to say nothing of putting in the work to learn the QB position in the NFL.
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