Zimmerman was a pretty good HS QB recruit that switched to safety. Turned out to be decent after switching positions.
The St James kid has a ton of potential to switch positions if QB doesn't work out.
In fact, many of our defensive backs were offensive players in HS (QB, RB, WR) and switched to defense and college to become very good players.
Zimmerman was a walk-on who was never in the QB rotation. How hard is this to understand?
My point is that Wheeler may not even be being recruited primarily as a QB. They will tell him he'll have every opportunity to play QB, but if you can get a local kid with his measurements committed, you do it. The plan may be to have him move after he gets here if QB doesn't pan out. Also, Zimmerman was a greyshirt, not a walkon. His first spring semester when he came on scholarship he started working at QB, then switched to safety.
FWIW, your comment about QBs not performing that well in HS and then coming to K-State and failing I agree with. This was always part of my worry about Delton, he was an okay 5A QB at Hays, but far from dominant in a way that he was going to come to K-State and be really good unless he developed a ton.
i don't know what the staff have told wheeler re: his future college position. he could be coming in as a TE and be cool with it for all i know. i do know that betts is expecting to be a QB, and his current production is not acceptable for a P5 recruit.
also i understand the fact that many QBs switch to play different positions in college, but that's more the case of practically every HS coach making the best player on their team the QB, even if they are better at a different position.