re: Aside from Burrow and Daniels, who's the most dramatically improved player you can recall?

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Aside from Burrow and Daniels, who's the most dramatically improved player you can recall?

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I’m gonna throw Debo Jones out there. Didn’t fully start until his senior year and ended up as a Butkus award finalist. I’m sure it didn’t help being behind Kwon Alexander but he made the most out of his one year starting.

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It's hard to say Burrow made a bigger leap than Daniels. I think Burrow had it at points the first year but not consistently. Daniels didn't have that same level (even just for parts of some games) the first year.

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I would agree Burrow made the bigger jump. Some folks don't want to hear it because they really dismissed and dogged Daniels for his Junior season, more so than Burrow (though Burrow did have critics his Junior season) but even if you take away Daniels running numbers, his passing numbers by themselves were better than Burrows their respective junior years.

Burrow 2018 - 219-379 for 2894 yards; 7.64 YPA - 16 TD's/5 Int's 58% Completion Percentage.

Daniel 2022 - 266-388 for 2913 yards; 7.51 YPA - 17 TD's/3 Int's 68% Completion percentage.

And Daniels ran for 500 more yards than Burrow.

So if you go by that I think you can reasonably say Burrow made the bigger leap....IMHO. But both really improved dramatically.

I seem to remember quite a few linebackers making huge jumps in production. Deion Jones and Duke Riley were mostly ST guys until they blew up their last year. Damone Clark and even Kevin Minter iirc both made drastic improvement their last year. Offensively I think Steven Ridley comes to mind and maybe Terrance Magee. Both really shined when they were given more workload.

Josh Reed - went from RB depth guy to stud WR setting all-time records.

You have to say the biggest leap was Burrow just because of where he ended up. Both of them after their first year here were roughly equivalent (good, serviceable, above average D1 starters), but Burrow not only won the Heisman, he broke the all time record for votes for a Heisman winner. He didn’t just win a natty, he went 15-0 and beat all 4 preseason top 4 teams in the process.

Now we don’t blame Jayden for the 3 losses at all, he did what he could but it is what it is.

FYI-Nuss had a better first year than both of them. Could he take that leap this year?

Darrell Williams ended up being a damn good RB in 2017 after playing behind Fournette & Guice

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Who was a guy that was a DL at LSU and not overly impressive, but switched to OL in the league and had a long career?

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Man at least you're trying!!! If it's Al Woods you're thinking about he played nose in the NFL. Played a lot at LSU after being a highly rated player but never really put up numbers.

Danielle Hunter was solid at LSU but the dude has been consistently averaging double digit sacks in the NFL.

I don't know about drastically but it was always shocking to me that Danny McCray lasted as long as he did in the league.

Also Omar Speights is now starting for the Rams.

Brandon LaFell. Couldn't catch anything to becoming WR#1.