New Mexico State Aggies: Keys To The Season, Top Game, Top Transfer, Fun Stats
New Mexico State Aggies: Key To The 2022 Offense
Come up with more of a downfield passing game.
That goes hand-in-hand with the offensive line needing to be far stronger and consistent enough to give everyone time to work. It also goes with needing better quarterback play, but the receivers have to do their part.
The Aggies couldn’t do much of anything down the field. The attack was accurate enough at times, but it wasn’t until the win over UMass that the offense averaged over ten yards per throw.
The Aggies averaged over nine yards per attempt in the two wins, and didn’t get to seven yards a throw in the ten losses. The last time they averaged more than ten yards a pop before the season finale against the Minutemen? 2017.
New Mexico State Aggies: Key To The 2022 Defense
Don’t make it so easy to complete passes.
The Aggies might be beaten deep a whole lot, and they might give up a whole slew of midrange passes – they need to take away one of the two.
Offenses were able to move the ball however they wanted through the air, completing 68% of their passes on the season and averaging a whopping 9.5 yards per throw.
Out side of Alabama and Nevada, it’s not like NMSU was dealing with the Los Angeles Rams – UTEP, South Carolina State, and New Mexico were able to roll at will.
This all changes with more of a pass rush, but there’s enough experience and more options in the secondary to get creative.
New Mexico State Aggies: Key Player To The 2022 Season
QB Weston Eget, Soph.
Or Dino Maldonado. Jonah Johnson was a promising but inconsistent passer last year, and now he’s off. He wasn’t always perfect, but he hit UMass for 420 in one of the best performances ever by an Aggie quarterback.
There’s still an outside shot he returns, but if he doesn’t the 6-3, 225-pound Eget got in a little work in the strange 2020 spring season, and he threw a few passes last year, but now the offense will likely be his to run … if Moldonado doesn’t have a big fall camp.
New Mexico State Aggies: Key Transfer
DT Izaiah Reed, Jr.
The Aggies have options and depth on the defensive line, but they have to be far more productive.
Enter the 6-1, 297-pound Reed from Murray State, who made 45 tackles, with 2.5 sacks and 5.5 tackles for loss in his first two seasons. Last year he was limited to just six games but made 12 tackles and a sack. He’ll hold up when he gets his chances.
New Mexico State Key Game To The 2022 Season
FIU, Sept. 30
This isn’t going to be an instant turnaround. The Aggies are going to take a whole lot of lumps over the first part of the season, but Hawaii is a gettable game in late September and FIU comes to town six weeks later.
This is a future Conference USA meeting, and it’s one of the winnable games New Mexico State has to take down.
New Mexico State Aggies: 2021 Fun Stats
– Sacks: Opponents 40 for 246 yards – NMSU 19 for 139
– Fumbles: Opponents 23 (lost 10) – NMSU 17 (lost 6)
– Passing yards per attempt: Opponents 9.46 – NMSU 6.25
Offense, Defense Breakdown
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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