re: Fields will Redshirt (Official Prediction)

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Essentially. His overall passer rating was below 140, which not even top 40 in the nation. That’s even worse when you take his supporting cast into account.

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His PR was 139.1. You're technically right but not by much. He suffered from too many INTs but actually did better than Fromm in several passing stats, including completion percentage (though not by much) and had comparable stats otherwise. Not bad when you consider Fromm is a pure pocket passer with an elite football IQ whereas Hurts was a DT QB who made worse decisions overall and relied too much on his legs to bail him out.

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It was an awful year for the sec overall, and Bama didn’t feed their rb like they usually do. which really limited contenders.

Josh Dobbs was clearly better but he didn’t play for only elite team in the sec. Guice was probably more deserving, but he also didn’t play for the only elite team in the sec. Fitzgerald was more productive, but he played for a bad miss st team.

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Freshman Hurts actually played comparatively with Senior Dobbs, for instance. He may have gotten the benefit of the doubt by playing for Bama but he definitely did his part to help them win.

But again, even the starting QB at Bama was (who could run and pass) was bested by the freshman pocket passer from UGA. We don't necessarily need a DT QB to win a championship, which, again, was my initial point.