What did the Niners ever see in him?
What did Dallas think they were getting?
Size, arm, athletic, apparently really smart and coachable. Played in a small college but they ran a pro style offense and gave him of responsibilities that NFL Qb's generally handle and teams like what they saw.
The COVID year and his injuries just put him on a path were the amount of games he played over like a 5 year period was so small, the amount of passes he threw since he left high school some Qb's throw in a single season.
What SF and Dallas could never figure out, and I can't either, is how do you develop a QB in the NFL you don't feel like you can put out on the field? You can grow and develop in this league but at that position from nearly square one it's asking to much to take the needed growth and development. You can't "hide" them and development them on the field because they take entire teams down, destroy lockerooms, etc, etc. Colts are figuring this out now-the difficulty of developing a raw QB with actual on field experience.
CFL or any league he can get actual game experience is everything he needs. Maybe two years in those type of leagues and he could position himself to make a return if he plays well. Two years from now he'll be a year older then Tyler Shough is now, and I think he's probably going in round 2 so he's got time still.