Winning the SEC Offensive Freshman of the Year in 2019 certainly didn’t impress the people over at Pro Football Focus it seems.
In their annual ranking of all 130 starting quarterbacks in college football, Bo Nix comes in at an extremely low 95th.
Nix may have won SEC Freshman of the Year, but he really didn’t play like it. When kept clean, Nix earned a 69.2 passing grade, which ranked 107th among 130 FBS quarterbacks. As said in the PFF College Magazine, he struggled to move the ball on schemed plays and has suspect downfield accuracy. Nix may have been a five-star recruit and the No. 1-ranked dual-threat quarterback coming out of high school, but we just haven’t seen enough from him to make us believe he will ever live up to that hype.
Okay then. Let’s state the ways in which they are wrong. First, yes, Nix had some accuracy issues but, as a true freshman, still put 2,542 passing yards and 16 touchdowns to just six interceptions (none at home) and rushed for seven scores himself, helping the Tigers defeat Pac-12 champion Oregon in his collegiate debut and Alabama to keep the Crimson Tide out of the playoffs.
One wonders if these guys watched the Tigers games when putting together this ranking because he is behind some very suspect quarterbacks on this list.
Let’s just hope Nix sees this and uses it as fuel for this upcoming season.