The 2015 college football season is just days away, and Auburn junior Jeremy Johnson is on the verge of kicking off his first campaign as Auburn’s starting quarterback.

The Montgomery, Ala., product has patiently bided his time, spending the last two seasons as Nick Marshall’s understudy. But because Johnson has seen such little action over that span — 11 games, including two starts — most fans outside of the SEC don’t know too much about him.

Nevertheless, here’s what we do know about Johnson. He’s big, he’s strong and he has a better arm than Marshall, who completed 60 percent of his passes for 4,508 yards, 34 touchdowns and 13 interceptions while helping Auburn land a spot in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game and leading the Tigers to a 20-7 record in his two seasons on the Plains.

We also know that Johnson is getting a lot of early Heisman Trophy attention, along with other SEC players such as Leonard Fournette and Nick Chubb. But that’s obviously just preseason hype. Let’s take a look at 10 Johnson numbers that indicate why that hype might be justified.

243: Johnson’s passing yards in the first half of Auburn’s season-opening 45-21 win over Arkansas last year when he filled in for a suspended Nick Marshall. Johnson became the first quarterback to throw for more than 200 yards in a half since Cam Newton achieved the feat against South Carolina in 2010 when he burned the Gamecocks for 281 passing yards in the opening 30 minutes.

73: Johnson’s career completion percentage.

6-5: Johnson’s height, which coincidentally matches Newton’s.

4.51: Johnson’s speed in the 40-yard dash, a figure he self-reported earlier this year. Malzahn since has said his quarterback runs more like a 4.6.

3: This is Johnson’s third year in Gus Malzahn’s offense, the first time the Auburn coach has spent three years with a single college quarterback.

4: Johnson’s career high for touchdown passes in a game, which he accomplished as a freshman against Western Carolina in his first career start when he stepped in for an injured Marshall. Johnson also threw for 201 yards in Auburn’s 62-3 win over the Catamounts.

26: Johnson’s career high for rushing yards in a game, which yes, also came in 2013 against Western Carolina.

67: The longest completion and scoring pass of Johnson’s career so far has been a 67-yard scoring strike to Sammie Coates in Auburn’s 45-10 victory over Florida Atlantic in 2013.

61: Johnson’s passing yards in last season’s 41-7 victory over LSU, when he spelled Marshall on two drives and went 3-for-3, including a 38-yard connection with Coates.

3,000 and 1,000: The number of yards Johnson wants to reach in passing and rushing, respectively, this season, which has been accomplished by only five QBs in NCAA history, most recently by Johnny Manziel in 2012. In case you were wondering, Dameyune Craig set Auburn’s single-season record for passing yards with 3,277 in 1997. Since that record-setting campaign, four Auburn QBs have topped 2,500 passing yards in a season – including three in Malzahn’s hurry-up, no-huddle offense. Marshall threw for 2,532 yards in 2014, but finished with only 798 rushing yards after running for 1,068 the year before. For Johnson to reach his goals, he would have to have a season like the one Newton had in 2010, when the current Carolina Panthers quarterback rushed for 1,473 yards while passing for 2,854 more on his way to winning the Heisman Trophy and a national championship.