FIVE QUARTERBACKS WITH POSITIVELY WHORISH NUMBERS IN 2010
Fantasy football for college really hasn't exploded like it should have yet, and we all know why: THE OTHERS REFUSE TO LET IT HAPPEN. There are also some minor issues as to the legality/propriety of using college players' and their names in pursuit of that pooled money at stake, but death is the day when you let a few minor rules get in the way of you and a good time, isn't that right Runaway Urban Monkey?
So in accordance with those rules to the barest of minimums, here are five quarterbacks that you should watch if, you know, you could actually run fantasy football for college without having to refer to "QB #7" when you all know damn well it's Case Keenum.
1. Blaine Gabbert, Mizzou. The dashing Monsieur Gabbert sallied forth into battle with two offensive linemen, a handful of baling wire, and three desk chairs for protection in 2009. Despite getting slapped around in his own one-man Taiwanese parliament, Gabbert threw for 3500 yards and 24 TDs as a sophomore. He loses Danario Alexander true, , but if Gary Pinkel will happily let first year starter Gabbert throw 40 times a game as a sophomore, he'll take the governor off completely for 2011. HA! We kid: this is Mizzou there never was a governor to begin with, just a post-it note on the gas pedal reading "if you can see this you're not going fast enough." Gabbert should approach the pizza-scented heights reached by Chase Daniel with relative ease.
And now that Ndamukong Suh isn't around to batter him, things should be even peachier for him.
2. The Great Moa, Nevada. A.k.a. Colin Kaepernick, the 6'6" qb who ran for 17 TDs and passed for 20 TDs in 2009 and like most great statmonsters gets to face fluffy, delicious defenses of little merit for much of the season, and then benefits from lax second half defenses when they do actually play good teams and need to play catchup. Kellen Moore might seem to be the obvious pick out of the WAC, but he's not going to be called on to run the option nearly as often. Bonus: Kaepernick running through traffic and lowering his head into defenders looks like someone trying to tackle a thrown ball of ladders tumbling off the back of a pickup truck going 75 mph.
3. Ryan Mallett, Arkansas. Oh, there's gone be turnovers. BEST BELEE DAT. Mallett is going to turn the ball over, and his completion percentage won't scrape 60%. This is of little matter, since like a male porn star without abs, he could care less about the cosmeticals and is only concerned with the gift that keeps the dollars rolling in: the cannon. With a very young offense across the board Mallett threw for 3600 yards and 30 TDs as a sophomore, and with added experience Mallett should roll clean through his foot injury and into some fearsome numbers. Better still: he feasts on lesser competition with admirable gluttony, as evidenced by racking up half of his TDs in games against Mississippi State, Troy, and Georgia. Did that feel good, you ask, to lump Georgia's WAC-tacular 2009 secondary in there? Yes, reader. Yes it did.
4. Case Keenum, Houston. Already sitting flush on 13,000 yards passing as an incoming senior and behind the controls of a heinous death wheel of an offense, Keenum can conservatively expect to throw for 4000 yards and 40 TDs this year, both of which would be a shade under his averages as a sophomore and junior starter for the Cougars. Whorish numbers to an extreme = fantasy happiness. Keenum should remind you why you want to invite your non-college football literate friends into CFB fantasy leagues, since you will take your superior ability to find relatively obscure qbs, pick them, and then watch as you set them on fire weekly with your mind-torch of a brain.
5. Brandon Weeden, Oklahoma State. The junior replacement for Zach Robinson gets Dana Holgorsen as his new OC, meaning the embodies spirits of Leach, Sumlin, and the very much present Mike Gundy will all implore him to throw until his rotator cuff explodes and aerosolizes in a puff of glittery powder. It's cheating to take two qbs from the Big 12, but this is about victory, and we plan on demonstrating full effort across the board here. Additionally: he's not as mobile as Robinson, and therefore more likely to pass/ less-likely to take retardation-inducing hits.
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Turnovers
But my QB savior Mallett only threw 7 picks in 400 attempts last year, O.
Also, he’s going all the way up to 57% this year.
The reasoning being...
…he’s probably going to throw a bit more, and thus get confident, and yeah, throw more picks.
Despite his resemblance to the Kurgan...
… I actually expect Mallett to rely a lot less on the long (and therefore interception prone) bombs with Klenakis from Nevada coming in to coach the O-Line. The offensive formation will likely be a little more Pistol-heavy this season, which will a) help the run game (thereby reducing 3-and-longs) and b) make it much much harder to blitz. Then, to cap off the season, Mallett will take Gabbert’s Quickening in the Cotton Bowl. Another time Tebow!!!
What you said
There’s an expectation that Wingo, Davis, Green, et al will have a bigger impact on the running game this year and thus not force Mallett’s hand so much.
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Kaepernick vs Moore
Kaepernick’s 17 rushing & 20 passing TDs are still 2 less than Kellen Moore threw for last year. Also, Moore only threw 3 picks. That’s a 13:1 TD:INT ratio!
Yes, but...
Does he look like a flightless bird when running? Certainly not, and thus his inclusion here.
You'll all think this is hilarious/irrelevent/shortsighted, but Josh Nesbitt outscored Mallet, Gabbert, and Weeden/Robinson last year.
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Endless 3 yard gain + occasional 80 yard bomb
Good for the highest yard per attempt in football. Seriously, I don’t think Nesbitt completed a single slant pass all year. GT’s only pass play was “Demaryus run really fast down the field and we’ll just let Josh throw it as far as he can and see what happens.”
by 4.0 Point Stance on Mar 4, 2010 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
Nesbitt bonus points....
Nesbitt also gets bonus points for 1) never, never cracking a smile, & 2) bitch-slapping linebackers like the little ineffectual Ho’s they are. In fact, some poor clown at Florida State is still looking for the football Josh ripped away from him. Who cares if his arm is a blunderbuss instead of a sniper rifle? Those legs are pure Claymore mine, bitches….
will it continue though?
I guess he can theoretically do the same bomb pass with stephen hill but the days of the screen to thomas, inevitable broken tackle, open field sprint, are pretty much over. That being said I’ll take the blunderbuss over whatever reggie ball was using (slingshot?)
by NittanyJackets on Mar 4, 2010 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
First Google Image resut for *Ball gun*:

But in honor of Reggie’s most infamous pass, we might consider one of those guns cops fire into hostile crowds. Those riot control rubber pellet things.
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Y'all are full of crap
Reggie Ball “sucked” only because Chan Gailey never recruited any linemen. Given time to throw, he did stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nWf-dtylKY&NR=1
Without Reggie, Tech has Taylor Bennett under center, and wins maybe 15 games in those four years.
I for one agree with you
Reggie Ball was the greatest QB to ever set foot at Georgia Tech and for that he should be given lifetime eligibility to continue finding new and more humiliating ways to lose to Georgia.
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Heheheh
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Just reporting Google Image search results and reminiscing about one bad pass myself.
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Kapernick vs. Moore
Rushing TDs are worth 6 while passing TDs are worth 4. Although Colin had fewer total TDs he still wins in points. That is why RIcky Dobbs killed last year.
One wonders if
Mizzou is moving to the “same guy as quarterback for a decade” model which has been so successful at Michigan State and Alabama.
Of course, if that’s the case, Monsieur Gabbert will need to quit shaving and pick up about 20 flabby, Missouri diet-based pounds around the midsection/double chin areas.
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by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 4, 2010 2:08 PM EST reply actions
How can you leave Wisconsin off that list?
Brooks Bollinger has been their QB for about fifteen years now. They just switch his number out every so often, and no one’s the wiser.
by 4.0 Point Stance on Mar 4, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
My apologies.
“6’0” mediocre white guy who manages not to throw too many interceptions" is as solid a quarterback model as any.
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by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 4, 2010 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
Really? Because I thought Brooks Bollinger was just another incarnation of Darrell Bevell.
by Jonathan Werner on Mar 4, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
Wisconsin hasn't changed qb's since Bob Kennedy was running quick kicks from the single wing
Back in nineteen-fifty-aught-two
by 4.0 Point Stance on Mar 4, 2010 4:21 PM EST up reply actions
The Chase Daniel paradox
Scientists have been trying to figure out how Daniel was able to remain fast despite ballooning his fleshy flack-jacket of a gut and FUPA chin. God help us all if Gabbert figures it out.
Chase was 6 feet on a good day
Gabbert is 6’6". That’s got to count for something.
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MSU?
Cousins, and Hoyer before him, bear no resemblance whatsoever to Crazy Legs Stanton.
I think you meant Texas Tech.
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Yeah, me too. Kinda disappointed to learn that it wasn't...
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Woah woah woah woah
What about Jevan Snead? He had a great sophomore season and has huge upside. I really think next year he’ll show…What?
He sucked last year?
But he’s still declaring early?
Huh….
Ok nevermind.
Pig Pen this here's Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down.
Forgive my skepticism regarding Weeden...
… but the one thing Oklahoma St. likes to do is run the ball. Gundy’s got talent to lean on at the RB spot while he breaks in a (virtually) brand new QB and . Add to that Weeden’s modility and the fact that there aren’t many playmakers at reciever.
There are more handoffs in Weeden’s immediate future than there are 5-yard Leech-passes.
The one thing that no one seems to have gleaned from your post is that all of your fave qb’s are on teams that will win nothing of consequence.
Then, brother, you miss the point
These guys will win you money in the fantasy game. It doesn’t matter if they win anything in the real world.
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