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As much as I hate it, I would agree and we all know he’ll end up at Auburn. Dude is 6’7” like 320 lbs. Really could use him in the rotation. Hope it works out but I’m not holding my breath on this one.

Does anyone have an idea on what our QB depth chart looks like? Really, I mean, who is in the #2 spot? I assume it is Walker Howard. How does he look?

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I saw some twitter action raving about Simmons.

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Probably the same weirdos that wanted Spencer Sanders to start over Dart last year.

I'd love to know how Howard looks in practice though. He was a very highly rated recruit. He was a 4 star and 3rd highest rated for dual threat QBs and 3rd highest rated recruit from Louisiana in the class of 2022.

Glad to hear it

I thought you guys would appreciate this gem of an analysis of our potential season from a State fan.

It's this kind of content that frankly makes the internet worth having.I edited for spelling and grammar (of course).

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On OM. Like Mizzou, they lost their best player in Judkins. Actually, I would say Judkins was the best player in the entire portal last year in the entire country.Seems like if OM loses 3 or 4 games then eveyone at the end of the season will be saying "how did we overlook the impact of losing Judkins?" Judkins led them in every game, and OM won 5 one score games in 2023 all due to him.

I know Harris is back at WR but who is their RB in 2024? Amos couldn't play at USC before Miami OH.

Of course, they have a very favorable schedule, but who on this team is going to be help them go 5-0 in one score games again? You know Venables and these other DCs can take away Dart's best WR (Harris) if no RB threat. Again, incredibly favorable schedule though.

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Look out guys. We don't have a running back. And we only have one WR that defenses can key on and easily shut down.

I’ve been rewatching games from last year and we absolutely would have lost 1-3 of LSU, Arky, and Auburn without Judkins.

Hopefully Lane is right and we can replace him in aggregate, but he was absolutely a game changer (same goes for Dart and Harris).

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would have lost 1-3 of LSU, Arky, and Auburn without Judkins.

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The most epic play of the LSU game was Bentley taking it 43 yards to the house where he basically ran around the LSU safety and made him look like he was standing still.

I think as a pure runner we don't miss much with what we have on the field now. Judkins really stood out as a pass receiver out of the backfield

Most of Judkin's plays hit the line for no gain. I truly believe that had Bentley gotten those carries in place of Judkins, we would have had more rushing yards. So, no, I disagree that we would have lost those games without Judkins.

It’s not just about stats, it’s about a skill set. Think about how many times over the last decade we have screamed about not being able to pick up a 4th and 1 with the game on the line. Judkins could do that. Bentley is a great home run hitter but he can’t wear down defenses with 20 runs between the tackles

Against LSU: 5 ypc on 33 carries with a TD and 2pt conversion. Bentley only had 2 games with more than 10 carries and had 3.1 ypc and 7.2 ypc in those games. Q had 5 games with at least 20 carries and averaged over 5 ypc against both LSU and Auburn and never worse than 3.4 which is an average of a first down every 3 plays.

Against Arkansas: Judkins scored on a 4th and goal and if you watch the rest of the game the announcers pointed out that at least 2 20 yard pass plays were successful because the defense had to respect Judkins because of what he did against LSU.

I’m not saying Bentley is a bum, just that we are going to need to piece together multiple players to get the same production and value as we got from Judkins.

For the record, we lose all 3 games without Dart and 1-3 of them without Harris. So it is not like Judkins was the only one who mattered but he sure mattered a lot.