In a recent article with AL.com, Jameis Winston's father was quoted as saying that his Heisman Trophy winning son would play football for two more years at Florida State University, as well as one more with the baseball team. Winston's father also stated that Jameis' goal has always been to receive a degree.

Winston, who would be three years removed from his high school class next NFL Draft, will be a red-shirt sophomore this fall for the Seminoles. He'll be looking to duplicate his freshman season as an encore when he won the Heisman Trophy and the national title. In the process, Winston guided Florida State back to prominence after over a decade-long drought as a national power. Most NFL scouts project the 6' 5" 240 lb quarterback to be as high as the number one over all pick in next year's draft. This quote by his father seems rather strange as is the timing.

Most people will read into this as a public relations move, as Winston has been in trouble on that front since last fall. In December 2012 Winston was accused of sexual assault on a female student at FSU. The incident was not brought up again until Fall 2013 after Winston had become a national front runner for the Heisman Trophy. The charges were later dropped in November, which was great news for the Winston and his family. However, Jameis was back in the news in April when he was arrested for shoplifting crab legs at a local Publix Supermarket in Tallahassee, Florida.

Skeptics will have a lot of questions about any report that Winston will stay until he graduates. Is this a stunt to make him appear more like a true student athlete? Are they trying to repair his image before a second Heisman Trophy campaign begins this fall? Is this a way to get out in front of the Johnny Football negative campaigns that derailed a pretty good statistical year for Manziel? Or is this just a clever ruse to throw off voters, only to declare for the draft after a second Heisman is in the bag?

It's hard to fathom that somebody would turn down the millions for another year at the collegiate level. It worked out great for Tennessee's Peyton Manning. It was a disaster for USC's Matt Barkley. You can't fault anybody for taking the money and running yet some veterans swear by the immeasurable lesson learned by another year in college, on and off the field. 

If anybody seems to need another year of maturing, it's Famous Jameis Winston. There is no way to know if he really is staying or not, but the Seminole faithful will welcome him back with open arms if it is true. As for the questions swirling about the legitimacy two more gridiron years: all are potentially correct, all might be wrong. One thing is for sure, this 2014 Heisman campaign hasn't even officially started and it's already begun down in Tallahassee, Florida.