re: Who Are Some Criminally Underrated SEC Players of the Past/Present?

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It's a football thing that you don't understand.

There's more to the game than a bunch of numbers on a stat sheet. Nobody outside of Athens will ever compare Aaron Murray to JaMarcus Russell.

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Jamarcus was considered such an elite talent because of his size and his massive arm. But if you look at their production in college, anyone saying JR is the better QB in a runaway is simply fooling themselves.

Career stats (and for the record, AM's were in 4 years compared to JR's 3, so take that into the equation):

JR: 493/797 (62%), 6625 yards, 52/21, 148 rating.

AM: 921/1478 (62%), 13166 yards, 121/41, 159 rating.

Divide their career totals (by either 3 or 4) to get their career average per season:

JR: 2,208 yards, 17 TD/7 Int

AM: 3,291 yards, 30 TD/10 Int


Ok, well Jamarcus started slow but was a beast in 06. Let's compare both QB's best single season at the helm:


JR: 232/342 (68%) 3,129 yards, 28/8, 167 rating

AM: 249/386 (65%) 3,893 yards, 36/10, 175 rating



All this doesn't even take rushing into account, where JR had 79 career yards compared to Murray's 396.