re: Joe Burrow vs Trevor Lawrence

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Ahh baseball guy too. Yeah I would agree. Didn’t the RB from Ole Miss get drafted as well out of high school?

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Yes. They are both playing baseball for OM this spring.

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Color me unimpressed. Alabama, Allbarn, and Florida have average defenses at best.

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Auburn is number 3 in yards per play. Try again. You’re responses are getting worse as you go.

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As meaningless a defensive statistic as ever there was.

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2. What about points per game, passing yards per game, or total yards per game? Because Clemson hasn’t played a single team in the top 20 in any of these categories. LSU has played several, and Burrow’s stats still look way better than Lawrence’s.

Clemson has played one team in the top 20 for opponent passer rating (Texas A&M) and Lawrence’s stat line was:
24/34 (68.6%), 268 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT, 136.6 rating

Luckily, we will get to see what Burrow does against that same defense on Saturday.

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The couple times I have seen Burrow I think he just seemed to make all the right throws. But he is what two years older than Lawrence and he is a coaches kid probably a little more polished right now.

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Why should Burrow be more polished than Lawrence?

His dad's a coach- a career defensive coach. He can impart a work ethic and love of the game, but that's not going to address the mechanics of playing QB.

Burrow being older- he was riding the bench at Ohio State while Lawrence was playing high school ball. Burrow got better coaching, but Lawrence was playing.

Burrow transferred into LSU after the spring game, into a new system. Lawrence at that point had as much time in their respective systems, and looked better. Lawrence came back into the same system this year, while Burrow was in a new one again. Lawrence should be more comfortable, given that.

Burrow's ascension this year most closely parallels Kurt Warner the year the Rams won the Super Bowl; he has bounced around in his college career (like Warner did in the pro level), then just elevated to an obscene level this year.

If you draft Lawrence, you are drafting on potential. If you draft Burrow, you are drafting an established quantity- great accuracy, good fast reads, unflappable, killer instinct... in this scheme.

I think you can mold Lawrence to schemes, but you'd be foolish to put Burrow into any other scheme than what he's running. He's gone from decent prospect to elite record setter in this, so this is clearly what he's suited to run, and he runs it as well as it can be. He could step right into, say, the Saints offense. But you put him in something different, you're gambling.