We know LSU quarterback Myles Brennan is not going to match the numbers Joe Burrow put up last season.

That’s OK for the Tigers because no one in college football is going to match the numbers Burrow put up last season.

Burrow had a season for the ages as he won the Heisman Trophy by a record margin while leading the Tigers to the national championship.

Now that Burrow is playing quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals, Brennan will be quarterbacking LSU as a redshirt junior.

His job isn’t to try and do what Burrow did statistically. His job is to do what he can to help this rebuilt Tigers team have as much success as it is capable of having.

Burrow completed 76.3% of his passes for 5,671 yards with 60 touchdowns, 6 interceptions and a 202 passer rating as LSU finished 15-0.

Let’s erase those historic numbers and focus on ones more realistic and appropriate to the circumstances of the 2020 season.

We don’t know exactly what the passing game will look like under new passing game coordinator Scott Linehan. But it’s fair to assume the Tigers will remain pretty consistent with former passing game coordinator Joe Brady’s approach that produced last season’s eye-popping numbers.

Here are 5 numbers I want to see Myles Brennan hit in 2020:

1. A 62% completion rate

Brennan needs to be efficient and the Tigers need to be balanced.

This completion rate would help accomplish those goals. It would enable the offense to stay on schedule, move the chains and create opportunities for the running game as well as the passing game.

LSU doesn’t have Justin Jefferson or Ja’Marr Chase, so it’s not going to make as many big plays in the passing game as it did last year. Burrow led the country in pass plays covering 20+ yards, 30+ yards, 50+ yards and 60+ yards. (He was 2nd in 40+ yard completions.)

The sample size is small, but Brennan completed 60% of his limited attempts last season. That matches his career figure (42-for-70).

If Brennan makes good decisions quickly and delivers the ball accurately, the offense can be very productive.

2. Fewer than 10 interceptions

The fewer the better, but anything under 10 would be really good.

This goes hand in hand with the completion percentage because efficiency will be a key here as well.

Again, the sample size is small, but Brennan enters the season with 2 career TD passes and 3 interceptions in 72 pass attempts.

Brennan’s job is to give LSU its best chance to be successful and avoiding significant negative plays will be a big part of accomplishing that goal.

3. 3,000 passing yards

This number would put Brennan in the top 5 most productive seasons in LSU history, surpassing even Burrow’s junior season.

LSU is going to pass the ball a lot by design. It will wind up passing out of necessity more than it did last season.

With that in mind, if Brennan can hit the completion percentage goal, the yardage goal will be attainable as well — even in a 10-game regular season.

He doesn’t have to match Burrow’s 10.8 yards per attempt last season, but a high volume of passes, good choices and accurate throws will allow him to pile up the yards.

4. 22 touchdowns

This would tie Brennan with Tommy Hodson and Zach Mettenberger for the 4th-most in school history. That’s good company.

Doing so in a 10-game season (11 with a bowl) would be an average of 2 touchdown passes per game.

That would be half of what Burrow averaged last season, but it would represent a very good season for Brennan and the LSU passing game.

5. 8 wins

This one is out of Brennan’s hands more than any of the others. But he’ll still have a big hand in whatever the win total winds up being.

If Brennan does his job well, if he hits the previous target numbers, the Tigers will have a much better chance of hitting this goal as well.

This is a modest number in comparison to last season, but in a shortened season against a challenging schedule, it would be a good year – for Brennan and the Tigers.