A look back at the completed careers of JJ & JL

I decided to take a look back and see what their total numbers as LSU QBs ended up looking like and how each guy did as a starter:


JJ career (39 games)
390/663 (59%) 4,733 yards 34TD 20INT
359 rush 1,014 yards 12TD

TD on 5.1% of pass attempts
INT on 3.0% of pass attempts
TD on 3.4% of rushes
TD on 4.5% of total touches (pass attempts and rush)

JJ as starter (30 starts)
367/616 (60%) 4,408 yards 31TD 19INT
302 rush 801 yards 9TD

Average game: 12/21 147 yards 1TD 1INT 10 rush 27 yards 0TD

TD on 5.0% of pass attempts as starter
INT on 3.2% of pass attempts as starter
TD on 3.0% of rushes as starter
TD on 4.4% of total touches as starter

JLee career(38 games)
304/570 (53%) 3,949 yards 31 TD 21INT
30 rush -181 yards

TD on 5.4% of pass attempts
INT on 3.7% of pass atempts
TD on 5.1% of total touches



JLee as starter (18 starts)
200/408 (49%) 2,870 yards 23TD 17INT
27 rush -178 yards

Average game: 11/23 159 yards 1TD 1INT 2 rush -10 yards

TD on 5.6% of pass attempts as starter
INT on 4.1% of pass attempts as starter
TD on 5.3% of total touches as starter

LSU: 33 points per game with Lee as starter
LSU: 31 points per game with Jefferson as starter

*that ppg figure does include non-offensive scores*

What we figure out is Lee was more efficient at producing touchdowns when he touched the ball at LSU. JJ completed his passes at a much higher rate than Lee.

JJ averaged 37 more rush yards than Lee did (27 to -10) while Lee averaged 12 more pass yards than JJ. So we end up with a 25 yard per game advantage for JJ.To me that shows that Jefferson's "mobility" wasn't nearly as valuable over the course of a game as Les seems to think it was. I'd rather have a QB who can pass and leave the runs to the runningbacks.