“It’s only his third game,” Mullen says of Franks. “I know people get on him with this narrative that he’s started all these games [he had eight starts last year]; not in our system he hasn’t. I can’t tell you what offense they ran last year or what he was being coached or what he was taught. This is his third game in our system. … I think he knows we have his back. He doesn’t have a short leash. We’re going to continue to play him.”