SEC QB comparison

This is an exercise I wanted to undertake to see if my suspicion regarding Leavitt's badness largely being clustered was rose colored glasses on my part or if my hunch was correct:

2026 SEC GAMES ONLY (through Oct. 24)

QB GP PassYds PassTD INT RushYds RushTD TotOff
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Sam Leavitt (LSU) 5 1808 15 3 189 3 1997
Keelon Russell (ALA) 6 1792 15 6 109 3 1901
Trinidad Chambliss 5 1365 11 6 72 5 1437
Arch Manning (TEX) 4 846 5 5 27 2 873

I put Russell and Manning in there because we are about to play them, and Chambliss because he has been given the standard bearer lable for SEC QBs.

I t goes to show that once a narrarative or label is established it can be hard to shake. This bears out if one listens to non-LSU centric content, the book on Leavitt is potential for big plays, but inefficient, exceedingly mistake prone.

I thought Sean Salisbury had an interesting take from a conversation on his weekly AFR spot after the Tech game whereby he said something to the effect that the QB knows he is going to win and has an either conscious or subconscious drive to try things he might not otherwise do against more evenly matched opponents and that this is not necessarily a bad thing.

I don't take all the talk on Leavitt personally, and I know a lot of those guys have so much content to digest they are either looking at condensened highlights or box scores only and this is to make myself feel better about what we have.

After correcting to conference-only play, Leavitt's SEC résumé is substantially stronger than the all-games leaderboard suggested: nearly 400 yards of offense per conference game, 18 TDs responsible for, and only 3 interceptions.

I used two different chat assistants to compile the data and checked against each other but didn't verify myself manually, but looks correct to me. I know it is hard to read, but I could not get it formatted to go straight into a more readable tabular form.