Mr. Consistent

One knock I read about Aaron Murray in the comment threads here is that he played worse against the better teams on the schedule, as if that’s some unique insight.  What an observation like that fails to take into account is that other quarterbacks perform similarly.

If you take a look at last year’s SEC passer ratings, one thing you’ll find is that Murray was very good at avoiding being very bad in a regular season game.  His worst rating of the regular season came against Florida, when he finished with a 130.25.  What’s remarkable about that is that every other quarterback who finished on that list with Murray had at least one game during the regular season with a lower passer rating than he did.

• Newton – 107.65
• McElroy – 106.21
• Mallett – 128.19
• Garcia – 92.51
• Hartline – 104.17
• Relf – 49.25
• Simms – 88.56
• Masoli – 42.89
• Brantley – 80.39
• Jefferson – 15.20
• Smith – 51.96

Even more impressive about that is Murray was the only freshman of the twelve.  There’s a reason he’s the likely preseason All-SEC first team quarterback.