Honestly don't know what to make of it. Knowing everything I know it doesn't seem like Nick (and the coaching staff by way of him) is the type to go up to players and see what they think about starting and how they feel. They preach competition and that you as a player know what you have to do to start and play. And this spring/summer off season the depth chart is truly wiped clean like it is every year.
At the same time I feel like a conversation would have been had about the situation.
Didn't Jalen tell nick he planned on being here til December to graduate? I felt like what ever convo he wanted to have would have been had then.
But I'm just a nikka on the Internet