In looking at Kaliakmanis statistically, I think he's giving what we could've expected out of him. At Minnesota last year, Athan had 1838 14Tds and 9 interceptions. He completed 53% of his passes. At Rutgers he has 1650 with 9 Tds and 5 interceptions and completed 54% of his passes. His numbers are very similar to what he did last yar at Minnesota. His QBR at Minnesota was 115 and it's 119 at Rutgers. In 2022, Athan completed 54% of his passes in limited time.
According to PFF, Athan is not the problem. He has a really good score of 79.2, which makes him our third highest rated offensive player behind Hollin Pierce and Sam Brown. Gavin's PFF score wasn't awful last year. He had a 70. However, with 4 games left, Athan almost threw for more yards than Gavin and has the same amount of touchdowns. Where we miss Gavin is in the redzone. We had multipe times this year where we couldn't score from the two becuase the only option we had was to run it up the gut with Monangai against a stacked box. Gavin was extremely good in the redzone and usually scored. He had 11 touchdowns which really hasn't been replaced. But 1700 yards starting every game including a bowl game is preposterous.
According to PFF, Athan is not the problem. He has a really good score of 79.2, which makes him our third highest rated offensive player behind Hollin Pierce and Sam Brown. Gavin's PFF score wasn't awful last year. He had a 70. However, with 4 games left, Athan almost threw for more yards than Gavin and has the same amount of touchdowns. Where we miss Gavin is in the redzone. We had multipe times this year where we couldn't score from the two becuase the only option we had was to run it up the gut with Monangai against a stacked box. Gavin was extremely good in the redzone and usually scored. He had 11 touchdowns which really hasn't been replaced. But 1700 yards starting every game including a bowl game is preposterous.
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