Welcome to “I Got 5 On It”, each week I’ll be picking five news-worthy subjects based around college football to cover. Ranging from views on Devy prospects, general college football talk, interesting stats, and a little bit of hip-hop music (mostly 90s rap).
1. Top QB Performers
@FBGChase has done a lot of great work on twitter with ANY/A with NFL passers. That gave me the idea of using this stat to gage college passers each week. If you are unaware of this stat let Pro-Football-Reference.Com explain. ANY/A – adjusted net yards per passing attempt: (pass yards + 20*(pass TD) – 45*(interceptions thrown) – sack yards)/(passing attempts + sacks). See AY/A.. This stat doesn’t take into account any rushing plays, just purely dropbacks.
Here are the top 10 performers from week 2 of the CFB season.
*Note – The total on the bottom is the tally of all QBs that attempted at least 10 passes this past weekend.
While Spencer Rattler had the highest raw number of 18.05 this past weekend (even beat Grant Wells’ number from the prior week), Ehlinger was the most valuable passer due to having more passing attempts than Rattler. The value is determined by the difference in ANY/A to the AVG ANY/A then multiplying that by the number of dropbacks. Rattler was sacked on 15% of his dropbacks, not ideal. The average this past weekend was a sack rate of 6.3% for qualified passers (at least 10 passing attempts).
One big name that you don’t see on the top 10 list is Brock Purdy. Out of 38 qualified QBs, he landed as the 34th most valuable passer in week 2. His 2.61 was well below the average of 6.97. James Blackmon came in one spot below Purdy in their upset loss to Georgia Tech.
2. Let’s Just Slow Down
It’s barely been two weeks of college football and we already have ridiculous takes being thrown out based on beating up on FCS teams. Grant Wells has somehow become a Devy darling due to beating up on Eastern Kentucky. Not even Western Kentucky, but FCS Eastern Kentucky. That’s 7-and-5, middle-of-the-road, FCS Eastern Kentucky. Wells is a former 2-star recruit with only offers from Marshall and Charlotte. He elected to stay in-state and sign with his hometown Marshall Thundering Herd. He saw action in only one game as a true freshman in 2019. Wells had a great debut, tossing for over 300 yards on nearly 70% rate and a cherry topper of 4 TDs. Yes, this was a great performance, but he did what he should have done against an FCS defense. This doesn’t all of a sudden make him a bonafide NFL starter because he shredded up an FCS defense. Let’s take a step back, count to 10 and let him get a few more games under his belt before we make any kind of hasty decisions that will only look horrendous by the end of the season.
3. B1G Football is Back but No Nico Collins
Collins is a player I wasn’t very high on until I did my deep dive on him for last year’s Devy Watch Guide. Since that time, he’s been hovering around the 65th overall Devy prospect in my ranks. He was a guy I was able to constantly get in our Devy Watch ADP mock drafts. He’s been extremely overlooked due to horrible QB play during his Michigan tenure and with no film from this fall, Collins will more than likely continue to be overlooked by rookie drafters next spring. My DWG report on Collins:
“The Alabama native signed with Michigan as a top 25 WR in his recruiting class. He signed with the Wolverines over Georgia and LSU. Collins only appeared in a few games as a freshman catching just three balls. As a sophomore, he stepped up hauling in 38 balls. During the 2019 season, he hauled in 37 balls for nearly 20 yards per catch and 7 TDs. Despite not being ranked or touted as highly as his former Michigan teammates Donovan Peoples-Jones and Tarik Black, he’s outproduced both by a dramatic amount.
Collins has great size and build. He’s pretty well filled out at this point and doesn’t have a lot of work to do in that area. Collins plays with great physicality. He’s able to out muscle defenders at the point of catch. His physical nature lends him to gaining yards after the catch. Collins does a great job on contested passes. He gets himself into position by out-muscling his defender prior to leaving the ground to come down with the pass. Even as a big-bodied receiver, Collins does a good job of being a vertical threat. Averaging 20 yards per catch at 222 pounds was a bit of an eye-opener for me.
Collins has been a player that I’ve overlooked for the last two seasons. Following the 2019 season and going over Michigan film, he’s stuck out to me in a big way. I missed on him entering the 2019 season, but I won’t entering the 2020 season.”
4. Micale Cunningham, Maybe He’s Just Good
Cunningham is a prospect that I kept just brushing off last year. He kept producing eye-popping numbers week in and week out, but I just kept brushing it off. I talked a bit about ANY/A earlier in this article. Well, Cunningham graded out extremely well in that last year. Of passers with at least 100 attempts last year, Cunningham came in with the 6th best score last season. Only guys like Tua Tagovailoa, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Justin Fields, and Mac Jones graded out better than Cunningham last year. His 11.4 yards per attempt was second in the nation only to the explosive Oklahoma offense and Jalen Hurts. Cunningham had another good performance last weekend against Western Kentucky. He graded out as the 6th most valuable passer with this performance. This week, we get to see him face off against the Miami Hurricanes’ defense. This is the game I want to see this weekend. I want to watch Cunningham closely. I’ve brushed off his game far too much over the last year.
5. The Chronic
“Dr. Dre’s solo rap career began like a yarn out of a mob epic: coercion, conspiracy, guns strategically placed near jacuzzis. As a member of N.W.A in the mid-1980s, the producer was a star, but he was convinced that Eazy-E—the head of his record label, Ruthless, and fellow N.W.A. member—was fleecing him. Dre was seeking freedom from the World’s Most Dangerous Group, but he ended up dealing with someone far more treacherous.
Pro football prospect turned hulking enforcer, Marion Knight, Jr., nicknamed Suge for the sweet sugar bear he was as a child, had a reputation for intimidation that was the stuff of industry myth: punching a guy through a closed door and dangling Vanilla Ice off a balcony. He’d been hanging around Ruthless as the D.O.C.’s bodyguard and had grown close to Dre during his conflict with the label. With an eye on becoming a music mogul, Suge saw Dre as his meal ticket. Dre was already done mastering the final N.W.A. album, 1991’s 4Life, and he wanted out so he could finish work on his solo material. All that was standing in his and Suge’s way was Eazy.” Via Pitchfork
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