Nah, you don’t red shirt him, he’s been a starter from day one, if anything you bring a veteran qb in to help him get acclimated to complexities of D1
If the endgame is to get him to the league, and to be in the heisman conversation, the path I presented maximizes those chances. He's in a situation where he doesn't need to rush his development. It isn't like his family needs the money.
I personally just think he's okay. I think he benefitted from his father specifically picking an OC that tailored to his strengths, as well as their opponents being outgunned. It won't be like that at the P5 level. There was a reason he was originally going to Florida Atlantic.