Nebraska football: Ranking the Huskers’ opposing quarterbacks
Both the Nebraska football team and the Michigan football team have some thanks to give to Ole Miss and their former head coach. Without his recruiting violations, the Cornhuskers wouldn’t have linebacker Breon Dixon and the Wolverines wouldn’t have quarterback Shea Patterson.
While Michigan hasn’t officially named Patterson the starter, he looks to be the odds-on favorite to win the job. That could give Michigan the talent under center they’ve been missing since Jim Harbaugh arrived.
Patterson put up eye-popping numbers for Ole Miss through the air last year. Those numbers were even more impressive when you consider he did it in just seven games before an injury ended his season.
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In those seven games, he completed 63.8 percent of his passes for 2,259 yards and 17 touchdowns to just 9 interceptions. Projected out to a full season, that’s 3,872 yards and 29 touchdowns.
Michigan’s quarterbacks last year combined for a 54.5 completion percentage, 2,023 yards and nine touchdowns. That’s right, Patterson eclipsed in seven games, what three guys managed to do in 13.
It should come as no surprise that Shea Patterson is easily one of the best quarterbacks the Nebraska football team is going to face in the upcoming season.