LSU’s Top Quarterbacks of All-Time (Career Stats Included)

Etling, Tyler and Wickersham over Rohan Davey huh? Bold strategy cotton.

No worries. That's why I don't do those lists anymore. I always seem to leave someone out.

Dumbest thread in the history of tRant.

1. Tommy Hodson but this is very close with number 2.

2. JaMarcus Russell

3. Bert Jones

4. Zach Mettenberger

5. Rohan Davey

6. Matt Mauck

7. Matt Flynn

8. Y. A. Tittle played 4 years, and almost 1/2 his yardage and td's come from playing Tulane 4 times.

9. Danny Etling

10. Herb Tyler

I saw all of these players play in college or pro (including Y.A., also seen film and games of him at LSU.)

Bert and Zach had the best 2 arms and ball placement.

Hodson was not the strongest arm, but good placement.

Russell is still the largest big if, to much arm early at LSU.

Davey had Reed and they worked together well, it helped both of their games.

Too many eras, styles, expectations, coaching philosophies, coaching changes, shitty coaches, etc.

For example, Jones throwing for those yards when I was in school with Coach MAC is like a spread offense QB today. He didn’t have the receivers outside of Hamilton and everyone in the stadium knew he would get the ball thrown his way.

Numbers mean zero.
Freaking Coach MAC platooned one of the best pure passers in the history of pro football.

In 1990, Jones participated in the first NFL Quarterback Challenge. He finished first in the retiree category and third in the regular competition (The regular competition taking the top three finishers from the alumni competition and adding them to the regular field of current quarterbacks). Given his strong performance, Bobby Beathard, then the general manager of the Chargers, wanted Jones to come out of retirement,[12] but Jones was 38 at the time and chose not to try a comeback.

The widely respected scout Ernie Accorsi is quoted as saying that if Bert Jones had played under different circumstances, he probably would have been the greatest player ever. John Riggins has been quoted as saying Jones was the toughest competitor he has ever witnessed.[13] On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, in discussing his choices for the greatest quarterbacks of all time, described Jones as the best "pure passer" he had ever seen.[14]

1. Bert Jones
2. Tommy Hodson
3. Rohan Davey

The rest of them don't matter to me except that JaMarcus Russel is up there also whether you like him or not.

I think JaMarcus is higher on the list, but he had his moments that made us lose our shite.

I think Rohan was better than he gets credit for. A few more seasons would of proven that.

Tiger1988

Jones was booed when he was put into a game because he was platooned with Paul Lyons.

Paul Lyons was 6-1 as the starter in 1971 and had set a LSU record for total yardage in a game vs Wisconsin, every time Bert was put in the fans booed.

And my and dad and I saw the same thing, Jones had the far better arm, it is not until the Notre dame win did the fans stop booing him.

The next season Jones starts.

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I loved Hodson, but he couldn’t carry Jones jock as a pure passer and neither could Russell. Russell was tossing it up to 3 first round draft picks.

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Russell was not as good as people want to remember him. Made bad decisions, threw a lot of picks. His draft stock rose at the combine, not because of his LSU career.