What To Do About Jameis Winston

What do you do when an athlete's exterior embodies everything you want to root for in a player, yet their interior is everything you want to root against?

I give you Heisman Trophy winner and first overall draft pick Jameis Winston.

First the exterior. 

An African American quarterback with obvious pro-style offensive skills and equally obvious leadership skills.  To simply look at him behind an offensive line, scanning the defense and finding the open receiver, is to see the progress we've made in the NFL: an obviously great athlete, leader and passer who is an ideal candidate to fulfill the promise that Donavan McNabb couldn't and RGIII hasn't. In short, as a progressive and a football fan, Winston is the guy you really want to root for to shut down the subtle traditionalists and closeted racists who still doubt the ability of a black QB to become a superstar.

But now, the interior. 

At best he is a petulant and immature jerk who has been coddled and protected and told since a very early age that he's special an normal rules don't apply.  At worst, he's a rapist, a thief and a world-class misogynist.

What am I supposed to do with all that? I so want Jameis Winton, the African American quarterback to succeed, but I also deeply desire Jameis Winston the jerk to fail.

And furthering my angst is the inescapable feeling that the toxicity of the interior will pollute the exterior.  In other words, Winston is now a standard-bearer. He now represents ALL black quarterbacks. And in our society today, that means that if he fails, he fails because the exterior is a deeply flawed construct. He fails because all the haters were right - a truly black quarterback (sorry Russell Wilson) can't succeed.

Ryan Leaf was allowed to fail for being a jerk, but if Winston fails it will be because he's just another black quarterback who couldn't handle the rigors of sport's most demanding position.
I guess the only thing I can truly hope for is Winston's success on the field and enormous person growth off of it.