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Alex Grinch evaluates San Jose State QB Chevan Cordeiro before Week Zero clash

Cordeiro is the preseason 2023 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year, as @MWCWire knows. Alex Grinch is impressed.

San Jose State brings a talented quarterback into the Los Angeles Coliseum for the 2023 season opener on Saturday.

Spartan quarterback Chevan Cordeiro, a transfer from Hawaii, was voted the preseason 2023 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year. He is talented, but more than that, he is agile. That’s what struck USC defensive coordinator Alex Grinch when he was asked about San Jose State’s signal-caller during game week:

“Real slippery, can make a bad play good,” Grinch said. “If you’re surprised by it (running quarterbacks) in this day and age in college football, shame on you.

“It’s our expectation every single week. It doesn’t make it any easier to defend. The ability to get yards downfield, just extend plays, man it thins you out in every which way. It’s easy to say spy a guy and all that stuff. That means you’re not rushing as many as you’d like to rush or you’re not putting as many guys in coverage. It gives you major fits. It always has, and always will.”

We will see how well USC can contain Cordeiro as a runner while also making sure his scrambling doesn’t lead to a busted coverage and a big downfield pass play for San Jose State.

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USC braces for a high-powered offense led by all-conference QB

Meet Chevan Cordeiro, the preseason 2023 Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year. USC faces him in 5 weeks.

The Mountain West Conference announced preseason player honors this past week at the opening of the league’s 2023 media days. San Jose State senior quarterback Chevan Cordeiro was named the 2023 Mountain West Preseason Offensive Player of the Year.

USC opens with San Jose State and Cordeiro at home on August 26 in just five weeks.

Cordeiro was an All-Mountain West Second-Team selection after throwing for 3,251 yards and a career-high 23 touchdowns, which topped the conference. He also ran for a career-best nine touchdowns in 2022.

Cordeiro was also named to the 2023 Mountain West Football Preseason All-Conference Team alongside wide receiver Justin Lockhart.

As a senior in 2017, Cordeiro led the St. Louis Crusaders to the HHSAA Open division championship and was named the Gatorade Hawai’i Football “Player of the Year.”

He completed 67.4 percent of his passes with just eight interceptions for 3,130 yards and 29 touchdowns after following in the footsteps of and replacing current Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.

The Honolulu native spent 2018 to 2021 at Hawaii before hitting the transfer portal and ending up at San Jose State.

USC will open up as a huge favorite versus the Spartans, but look for Chevan Corderio to move the ball on an improving but still new USC defense.

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Mountain West Football Media Reveals 2023 Preseason Players of the Year

Chevan Cordeiro, Easton Gibbs, and Jack Browning are named the Mountain West’s preseason players of the year.

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Mountain West Football Media Reveals 2023 Preseason Players of the Year

The conference media makes its picks for offensive, defensive, and special teams players of the year.

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A new trio of predicted standouts.

Mountain West football’s media days are underway this morning in Las Vegas and the conference wasted little time in announcing the media’s choices for preseason players of the year.

San Jose State quarterback Chevan Cordeiro, Wyoming linebacker Easton Gibbs, and San Diego State punter/kicker Jack Browning were named as offensive, defensive, and special teams players of the year, respectively.

Cordeiro’s first year in San Jose was a big success as he led the Spartans to a Famous Idaho Potato Bowl bid by completing 60.1% of his 427 attempts for a Mountain West-high 3,251 yards and 23 touchdowns against six interceptions. He also made the most of his mobility, as well, adding 265 rushing yards and nine more touchdowns on the ground.

Gibbs, meanwhile, took a few steps toward becoming the next great Cowboys linebacker by tallying 121 total tackles, the second-most in the conference, nine tackles for loss, three sacks, and a forced fumble.

Browning had a difficult task in replacing Matt Araiza, but he handled specialist duties with aplomb, finishing 20-of-25 on field goal tries as a kicker and leading the Mountain West with an average of 46.3 yards per punt, including a net of 42.3 and 28 kicks inside the opponents’ 20-yard line.

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San Jose State Football: Chevan Cordeiro Named To DETMER Watch List

The Sickos Committee gets in the watch list game and San Jose State’s new quarterback is a player who could be in the mix.

San Jose State Football: Chevan Cordeiro Named To DETMER Watch Listt

The Sickos Committee gets in the watch list game and San Jose State’s new quarterback is a player who could be in the mix as the country’s most rippin’est player.

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Unpredictable and fun.

If you’re a participant in what is loosely known as College Football Twitter, you’re probably already familiar with the Sickos Committee, an account dedicated to celebrating the game’s strangeness and championing what makes it unique. In that spirit, they jumped into watch list season with both feet today and announced the DETMER watch list.

What is DETMER? You can find a detailed explanation right here, but in a nutshell it is an acronym which stands for “Downfield Eventful Throwing Metric Encouraging Rippin’ It”, which accounts for nothing more than passing yards, touchdowns, and interceptions.

And in the eyes of the committee, no quarterback in the Mountain West was a better fit for the watch list than San Jose State’s Chevan Cordeiro.

There’s little doubt he’s been one of the more exciting quarterbacks in the Mountain West when he was on the field for the Hawaii Warriors over the last several years, throwing for 6,167 yards, 45 touchdowns, and 22 interceptions on 835 pass attempts between 2018 and 2021. That equates to a touchdown rate of 5.4% and an interception rate of 2.6%, which would appear to be right in line with what the Sickos Committee looked for in their selections.

It was especially true last season, in particular, when Cordeiro threw for 2,793 yards, 17 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 11 games. That included three games in which he threw multiple interceptions and three others in which he threw three touchdowns, as well as four contests where he topped 300 passing yards. When the Todd Graham situation erupted early in the off-season, however, Cordeiro was one of many Warriors who left the program via the transfer portal, eventually landing with the Spartans.

While Spartans fans certainly hope their path back to the top of the Mountain West won’t be too hectic, the fact remains that Cordeiro will still be one of the most entertaining players anywhere in the conference.

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Hawai’i Quarterback: Who’s starting next week and beyond

Hawaii has switched around quarterbacks a few times this year, so who will head coach Nick Rolovich go with next week?

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Hawai’i QB’s: Who’s starting next week and beyond

Cordeiro or McDonald

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What is going on with Hawai’s QB situation?

Chevan Cordeiro was 23-31, 309yds, 3 TDs in the win over San Jose State Saturday night at Aloha Stadium.

In what was the biggest decision Hawai’i head coach Nick Rolovich has to make in his still young coaching career he decided to start the redshirt freshmen over his one and a half year starter Cole McDonald.

After the game coach Rolo praised both quarterbacks with how they handled themselves both on and off the field. It’s not easy being on the sideline watching his backup run the run and shoot offense like Cordeiro has since his high school days at Saint Louis Schools. But being a good teammate McDonald is he is always the first to congratulate or give Coideiro some encouragement or insight when he comes off the field.

It looks like now coach Rolo has another tough decision going into the UNLV game next week in Las Vegas. While Coideiro has proven he can lead the team to many scores at Aloha Stadium we have not seen him start yet on the mainland. If Rolo wants to roll the dice again and start Coideiro next week this might be the one opponent to do it in a 2-7 Rebels team.

McDonald understood Rolo’s decision to start Cordeiro and told his head coach that he will work even harder next week to win back his job. So does this mean Rolovch can start McDonald again?

Absolutely. Look Hawai’i probably wouldn’t be in the situation they are in right now without Cole starting being 6-4 and having a slight chance to win the West Division and play for the Mountain West Championship. You have to give him credit for always believing he is “the guy” even when the local critics are hard on him.

So looking at the good situation Hawai’i has that they can start either quarterback and have a good chance of success. Let’s look at some facts to determine who should start:

  • Cole McDonald has the experience with 21 starts including a career record of 5-2 on the road against MW teams.
  • McDonald’s QBR is 68.0(47th best in the country) and despite throwing nine interceptions in the first four games McDonald has only thrown three on the last five.
  • Everyone can see that Cole is a confident guy whether through media interviews or on the field. He likes his chances of throwing into small windows in the secondary.
  • Cole’s tendencies still seem to be going through his progressions a bit slower than Chevan and his thought process of taking off is too late. Also, McDonald in the RPO gives the ball to the running back about 85% of the time instead of pulling it back and running with it.
  • Cordeiro albeit only started two games in his career has made the most of his time on the field with the two victories and also several comeback wins on his belt.
  • He has been in eight games in 2019 with a QBR of 84.1 and threw for six touchdowns to one interception.
  • Chevan can throw the long ball and connect with the highs of 71, 57, and 50 yards the last three games. But some deep passes can hang in the air and the receivers have to come back on it or it could easily be a pick but so far it hasn’t hurt UH.
  • He may be a quiet leader but he will boast about his teammates after the game every time.

It will come to if Cole McDonald can have stellar practices and prove he is still “the guy” for Coach Rolo. If Rolo is impressed and can trust Cole to make the throws he knows he can make he will start at UNLV.

After that week though we might see another change and start Cordeiro and give the San Diego State defense another thing to prepare for in his elusiveness. It will be like an MLB team having two-star pitchers and putting them against the team they know they have a better chance of winning based on personnel.

The future for Hawai’i football is with Cordeiro no doubt about it but the last three games (possibly four) can determine if McDonald will play in a Rainbow Warrior uniform next year. I’m thinking the future is now.

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