Washington Post showing the love to LSU

Even Mett and Etling took steps up in their 2nd year starting here, though obviously nowhere near the level of Burrow and Daniels.

Jayden Daniels is such a great QB, he has me upvoting articles from the Washington Post.

Is there anything he can't do?!

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One: If you want to win a Heisman, transfer into LSU and wait for the second year, as Burrow did when he rocketed from 65th place in the passer rating list in 2018 to first in 2019, throwing a preposterous 60 touchdown passes in 15 games and picking up the Heisman along that trail.

Two: Some years, the Heisman comes down to a worthy deluge of numbers, with Daniels’s candidacy calling to mind 1988 and Barry Sanders, whose 2,628 rushing yards that year remain unsurpassed in the Football Bowl Subdivision. The choice can shout from one game in the great season of the player amid a very good season of a non-contender for the national championship, as when Sanders rushed for 215 for Oklahoma State (which finished 10-2) against mighty Oklahoma and when Daniels passed for 372 and rushed for 234 for LSU (which has gone 9-3) against non-mighty Florida, but the sum of that — 606 — wowed reasonable people.

He epitomizes a skill of the era: play extension.

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There’s more good in the article than just OP’s quote.

It really all seemed to click for Mettenberger in the 2012 Alabama game (which unfortunately was lost due to John Chavis) which technically was in his second year as he completed 8 of 11 passes in 2011. That said, he was better in 2013 (his second year starting) than in 2012.