Eight college football stars facing most pressure in 2017

6. Josh Rosen, quarterback, UCLA

To say Rosen’s 2016 campain was disappointing would be underrating the circumstances. Before the 2016 season began, he was hyped as one of college football’s most exciting young stars after a dazzling, albeit up-and-down freshman year.

Then Rosen was rocked in Week 1 by Myles Garrett and Co. in a game that the Bruins botched from the start. It wasn’t the start he needed, and it ended up portending the doom that was to come. Rosen would miss the second half of the season with nerve damage to his throwing shoulder, and it wasn’t until this spring that we finally saw him doing Rosen-type things on the practice field.

Looking ahead to 2017, Rosen must prove he’s fully healthy. He must prove he’s not a “mess off the field” and that he’s more accurate than his sub-60-percent career completion rate suggests. Now, it’s worth pointing out that the Bruins did Rosen no favors with drops by receivers, but still, he needs to get that up to around 65 percent or higher, realistically.

UCLA doesn’t face team-wide pressure to win a title or bust like many of these other squads. But Rosen personally has a lot of questions he needs to answer this season.