Video: SEC's statistical leaders on offense not who we expected
Chad Kelly of Ole Miss is surely the premier quarterback in the conference, but he’s not in terms of passer efficiency rating.
It was billed as the year of the running back in the SEC. Names likes LSU’s Leonard Fournette, Georgia’s Nick Chubb and Tennessee’s Jalen Hurd dominated the conversation. However, the league’s leading rusher is a different name.
There are some explosive wide receivers among the 14 member institutions, too. Calvin Ridley at Alabama, Christian Kirk at Texas A&M, Antonio Callaway at Florida — cornerbacks quake in their cleats when having to cover those guys one on one. Nevertheless, a tight end has more receiving yards than all of them.
While we’re yet to reach the midway point of the 2016 campaign, we’ve played enough games for the statistics to be meaningful. On the offensive side the football in particular, a few of the league leaders are a bit surprising.
Be sure to watch the video above for some quick commentary on the top throwers, runners and receivers through Week 5.
John Crist is the senior writer for Saturday Down South, a member of the FWAA and a voter for the Heisman Trophy. Send him an e-mail, like him on Facebook or follow him on Twitter.
Lose the video. No one wants to see you or hear you. Send your videos to Beth Mowin.
Your complaint has been heard. But plenty of people love the videos, from readers to ownership to, most importantly, advertisers. Fortunately, there are some easy solutions for you. If you’d like to make up the difference in revenue of us cutting video content, you can send a check to our home office in Longwood, Florida. Or, my recommendation, you could simply not click on the stories clearly labeled “Video” in the headline.
Well articulated burn. However, when addressing your readers I’d stray away from “most importantly, advertisers.” After all, readers = advertisers. Not vice versa. Comes off as petulant and petty.
He’s just mad cause your Seminoles spanked his lame barn team.
what a great name you have there. Again, teabag fans, cock jokes abound. I’m seeing a trend of closet homosexuality in T-town. Like the San Francisco of the south. Look out boys RamaJama Alabama is in town.
Point taken. Note to self: You as a reader are not as important to SDS as advertisers and as such SHOULD NOT waste your time reading the articles they produce, which lack the depth and simple info you already have through research and your local sports talk radio station.
My apologies. It was wrong to suggest that advertisers are more important than readers. Without readers, there obviously are no advertisers. That being said, advertisers are the ones paying for the product that SDS gets to produce and readers get to consume. They’re also the ones paying for all the college football that miraculously appears on our TVs every Saturday.
Another alternative… keep the videos, and just get someone less nauseating to watch to be in them. Win win… readers happier, more views, more almighty advertising money.
John, why is it that when you talk about the top WRs in the conference, you really never mention De’morea Stringfellow? Have you seen him play this year? If you have, you have to admit that he has looked like a BEAST!!! He catches everything that comes near him and has made a lot of ridiculous catches. The media just like to talk about OM’s WR group as a whole, but don’t mention any of the WRs themselves when talking about the best individual WRs in the conference. Stringfellow has looked like the best WR in the conference in my opinion and OM’s freshmen WRs (AJ Jefferson and DK Metcalf) really are two of the best.