to add the contrarian viewpoint - last week on UND360 podcast they were discussing who the leaders are on the fb team with Tom Miller. He said that Otis is a leader at least through his actions at practice where he is high energy, practices hard and elevates the rest of the team - similar to Santiago. He said they miss Nguyen from a leadership standpoint and Otis when he's not playing.
I know that isn't exactly the same but it does point to some positives and hopefully the sick thing was just that.