Comparing Burrow and Mett's first seasons as starter...

Like Burrow this year, in 2012 Mett came in as a high profile transfer with a lot of hype. The expectations from the fans were sky high. Just like this year probably unrealistic.

After what he did in 2013, his 2012 season seems to be a disappointment in the memory of a lot of fans - me included until I looked up the stats and saw that Mett's 2012 was actually the second most yardage by an LSU QB since Jamarcus Russell's '06 season. That's of course comparing him to a lot of bad QB play that we've had since then. But prior to the season I told myself that I would be happy if Burrow put up numbers similar to Mett's first year as a starter. After all, Mett was in the program for a full year before starting and Burrow had just a couple of months to get acclimated to the team, staff, and playbook. Here are the stats:

2012 Mett: 13 games, 207-352 58.8%, 2609 yards, 12 TD, 7 Int, 128.34 rating

2018 Burrow: 13 games, 219-379 57.8%, 2894 yards, 16 TD, 5 Int, 133.21 rating

Granted, I understand a lot of people will say Burrow had 7OTs in the A&M Game. But in those 7 ot's he was only 4-6 for 71 yards and 1 TD. He did most of his work on the ground.

And while time will tell, it can also be reasonably argued that Mett had so much more to work with in 2012. His RB's:
Jeremy Hill
Kenny Hilliard
Michael Ford
Spencer Ware
Alfred Blue

His WR's:
OBJ
Jarvis Landry
Kadron Boone
James Wright
Russell Shepherd

His OL:
Dworaczyk
La'el
Williford
Elliot Porter
PJ Lonergan
Chris Faulk
Alex Hurst

We can only hope that 2019 Burrow is as good as 2013 Mett but comparing their first years under center I think we have a good reason to have high expectations for next season.