Hunter Dekkers signs with Houston Gamblers
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Hard to believe Hunter Dekkers had a much better completion percentage and slightly better TD-INT Ratio than Sage Rosenfels.
But he did.
GASP!
Rosenfels struggled to complete 50 percent of his passes at Iowa State. He had a career 52 percent completion rate and it was worse than that as a senior at about 51 percent. It wasn't until he hit the pros that his completion rate went up, topping out at 69 percent in only 4 games with Houston. His career percentage in the NFL is 62, and is probably the result of playing with better pass catchers.
Look again….
Hunter Dekkers
“completed 302 passes on 457 attempts for a Big 12-best 66.1 completion percentage, which ranked fifth in single-season school history and was 23rd nationally ... his 302 completions were the second-most in the ISU single-season record books and the most among Big 12 quarterbacks in 2022 ... was ninth nationally with 25.2 completions per game“
It's not hard to believe, given the difference in eras and offensive styles.
Changes in the rules regarding helmet-to-helmet hits, defenseless WR's, and roughing the QB have made passing easier.
And I speculate that it is much easier for college kids (football is only a part-time job for them) to operate in these offenses where they are almost always in shotgun outside of short yardage situations and doing post-snap reads of a defender on an RPO or read option, compared to the old QB under center play action pro style offenses that Sage was in with Mac, and that operate best when a QB is making pre-snap audibles.
And no disrespect to Craig Campbell or Chris Anthony, but I'll take X Hutchinson & Jaylin Noel.
Got you, WRs matter.
my initial point was Hunter Dekkers NOT being a “Free Slinger with accuracy issues”
Still he was 23rd nationally in completion percentage. But that’s due to system and WR. Got ya.
Always thought he should ditch the neck beard, awful look for a serious QB and made his head look huge
23rd in the nation when compared to other QBs in 2022 who also had the same advantage of changes in the rules and offensive philosophies. It's fine to benchmark Hunter vs other guys in his class but its not such a clean comparison putting him up against Sage. Also, Dekkers was 85th in the country in yards per attempt so I'd hope that he had a high competion percentage.
