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 3 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.
In an unexpected turn of events, Coastal Carolina’s Grayson McCall was the most valuable passer this past weekend. He kind of ran away with it this week. Week 3 didn’t present a lot of elite passing performances but we see a lot of familiar names in the top 5. The two least valuable passers this week belonged to Chase Brice and Tommy DeVito. DeVito tallied 32 yards on 15 passing attempts along with 7 sacks. A truly disastrous performance. DeVito is currently a “tier 4” QB prospect by some sites… Week 1 darling, Grant Wells, came in as the 25th passer out of the 37 qualifying QBs. What a difference it makes when you face an FBS defense. Trevor Lawrence would have had one of the top performances if not the best if he would have attempted the threshold of 10 attempts Saturday. His replacement DJ Uiagalelei did meet the threshold and came in 16th in his limited playing time.
2. Ulysses rolls like a Bentley
The out of nowhere prospect that has caught my eye the most through this early part of the season has been Ulysses Bentley (what a name). I didn’t know he existed until I saw him running through the Texas State defense a few weeks back. Saturday night’s performance against North Texas was a thing of beauty. He was unstoppable and just punished North Texas defenders who dared to try to tackle him. The redshirt freshman tallied 227 yards on 19 attempts and 3 TDs. Bentley signed with SMU as the 142nd ranked RB in the 2019 recruiting class. Saw limited action in 4 games during the 2019 season, just rushing the ball 7 times. In two years, he’s bulked up quite a bit from his high school days. Bentley has shown the ability to run with good power and with some athleticism. Against North Texas, he displayed breakaway speed, but his long speed appears to be average to slightly above-average. Bentley isn’t a burner, but he runs with good patience and power. I am very intrigued after two games of viewing.
3. Jaxson Dart
No prospect has seen a bigger uptick in their recruitment during their senior year than Jaxson Dart to this point. He came into his final year of high school with offers from BYU and Louisiana. He’s since shredded every opponent including a high school showcase on ESPN. Dart has added offers from Utah State, Arizona St., Iowa St, TCU, and UCLA to this point. Dart has recently jumped all the way up to 247Sports 14th rated Pro-Style QB. Dart had a decent JR year that saw him complete 64% of his passes 2,400 yards and 22 TDs to 8 INTs. After a transfer to a new school, Dart has already basically blown the numbers out of the water in just 6 games compared to the 11 from his JR year. He’s completing 70% of his passes for 2,032 yards and 27 TDs to 1 INT. Currently has a whopping 22 yards per passing attempt. He’s even added 455 yards on the ground at 10.3 yards per carry. As a full-time starter in 2018 and 2019, he only tallied 200 yards rushing over those two years. I like Dart’s upside and arm talent. He can spin it with the best of them. He’ll be a fun prospect to watch over the coming years. My hope is that he lands in an uptempo Air Raid offense. He’ll be a delight to watch the next three to five years in that style of offense. I can see him struggling in an overly structured offense, but give him the ability to freestyle and make big plays. Dart will make Saturdays fun.
4. D’Wan Mathis the man for the Dawgs?
With Jamie Newman opting out and JT Daniels still not being cleared for practice. The rFR Mathis appears to be the man for the Dawgs at the moment. The recruiting industry was much higher on Mathis as a prospect compared to 247Sports (whom I trust the most). He was rated as a 3-star and the 23rd Pro-Style QB. From his Georgia Bio Page “Completed 62.5 percent of his passes in 2018 for 1,509 yards and 20 TDs through the air, with 305 yards rushing as well…threw for over 3,000 yards and rushed for over 700 yards with 26 TDs accounted for in his junior season.” Mathis underwent potentially life-saving surgery in May of 2019 when a brain cyst was discovered. This greatly affected his ability to practice last fall.
“Walking, balancing, running — as well as neurological testing and exams — became a daily part of Mathis’ life as he worked furiously to get back to rejoining the team by the start of fall drills.
The life-threatening event stayed fresh in D’Wan’s mind, and he viewed his comeback to football as an opportunity to make the most of his life.
“The honest truth, waking up in a hospital bed, and seeing my parents, and seeing how my head looked and everything, man, it was humbling,” said Mathis, whose skull surgery involved a metal plate secured by screws.
“I was like, wow you are so blessed, be thankful that you are still here.”
A special helmet awaited Mathis at practice, even though he was by no means cleared for contact.”
The Michigan native was a one-time Ohio State commit that flipped to Georgia late in the process. Mathis has a big, powerful arm. He can make just about any throw you want from a QB. Mathis puts a ton of air under his deep throws and this forces the receivers to have to backtrack quite often to bring in the pass. While Mathis has a big arm, he’s certainly not the option that I’d want with an SEC title on the line. With Newman no longer on the roster, JT Daniels is the option I would want under center with an SEC Title and possible College Football Playoff berth on the line. Mathis is a great story, but with a healthy and cleared Daniels, he has to be the man for Georgia to meet their potential this season.
5. Get Rich or Die Tryin’
“Get Rich or Die Tryin’ was the perfect storm. Like many other rap classics, it was created in a blur—seven songs of the end product were created in just five days. Dr. Dre, at the height of his powers, produced four songs, Eminem contributed two, and the rest of the songs were handled by a variety of relatively known, highly effective beatsmiths. The impeccable production served as the perfect backdrop for 50’s harrowing hood tales. Like 50’s flow, the production was region-less. There was no boom-bap or carefully chopped soul samples put on a dusty loop.”
“The most remarkable thing about Get Richwas the light 50 shined on himself and his hood. He wasn’t rapping from the viewpoint of an observer; he was the protagonist of each tale. His rhymes, drenched in anger and anguish, were ones that dudes still clawing their way out of the gutter could relate to. Just as he had years earlier on “Ghetto Quran,” 50 gave the listeners access to a world most people only read about or saw on the nightly news.” Via Complex.com
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