No Hokies. You'd like to think Farley would have had a shot to be on here. I think we need a couple of these in the future if we want to compete at the top of the ACC.
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Kind of a pointless exercise when nearly half of the list has either opted out or their team will not be playing football this fall.
good point, its not a normal year
2nd straight preseason of Trevor Lawrence being anointed the best player in college football. He was arguably the 4th best QB last year behind Burrow, Tua (before hip injury, of course), and then it's a debate between Fields and Lawrence, yet once again here we are annointing him the god of college football. He did not throw the ball well in either playoff game last year. Everyone is still clinging to that game where he threw back shoulder fades to an outmatched, backup JUCO corner over and over again while Bama had no healthy edge rushers to pressure him.
I hear what you are saying, but he is whatever -1 as a starting QB and there was plenty of talent on that Bama defense that nobody else seemed to solve. I'd put Lawrence up there very close regardless.
I'd have him up very high near the top, but the insistence that he is a GOAT candidate since that Bama game has been consistent. I posted this on reddit a few months back, but his numbers are basically AJ McCarron numbers, with a more attempts and lower YPA.
Also, you are right that Bama defense was great for most of the year, but the version that made it to the title game was down 3/4 of the OLB's 2deep (edge rushers in Bama's front), the "healthy" one was coming off back to back season ending injuries and never got back to full speed until 2019. Their key edge rush position in 3rd down situations had three options: A former walk-on, a true freshman, and an ILB. The corner they picked on was an UDFA who is already out of the NFL, JUCO transfer. Most teams they played that year had 2nd round pick Trevon Diggs covering that side of the field. Both DE's in their system got hurt against the Citadel (flashbacks to GT injuries) and were never the same after that game. There were rumblings that a few of the draft worthy guys had already moved on mentally before the game, (a very non-Bama-esque mentality, which led to Saban completely rebuilding the staff and even altering some of the kids he was recruiting.) It was truly a perfect storm.
Yea but Trevor Lawrence had to play against all those tough ACC defenses
So I don't really watch a lot of clemson tape, but from the stats it looks like he got a little bit more ypa and his Int rate went up. If he was throwing down field more then that makes sense, but if Clemson was calling the same plays and the recievers were better at battling for an extra 2 feet then well is he getting better? Most QB increase their comp% especially from frosh to soph:
Tua was 63% to 69%
Fromm was 62% to 67%
Ehlinger was 57% to 64%
It will be interesting to see how well he plays this year.
Did you watch the Ohio State ogame? He put the team on his back when he started running the ball and sparked that turnaround. Wasn't perfect, but he stepped up and made plays they needed against elite talent. End of the day he puts up monster stats and shows up in big games for a premier team, easy recipe for acclaim, even if it's a little bit over the top. And he may have been the 4th best QB last year, but two of those QBs were top-5 picks, so it kind of makes sense that he'd be slotted up after their departure.
ESPN is the worst.
I'm assuming Heather Dinich made that list
There is no way Chazz Surratt should be on that list. I could name at least one linebacker in the ACC who is much better than him, and I don't have to look far. Additionally, he shot the complete wrong gap in QP's long TD run against them last season.
So you're saying we should thank him?
Yeah I feel like people love his name and want him to be better than he really is. If he had been a LB all along and not switched from QB people wouldn't even know him...imo
I agree. Surratt is All-ACC caliber, but Rayshard Ashby led him in in TFL/game, leads the country among returning starters in tackles at or behind the LOS, was better in terms of tackling, and looked better on film to me. Max Richardson at BC is being underrated too, IMO.
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