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Excerpt from the athletic:
Noah Vedral had no ties to anyone at Rutgers when he transferred from Nebraska in May 2020. Then he, like most other players in the Big Ten, endured the strangest offseason ever while trying to learn coordinator Sean Gleeson’s up-tempo offense.
The numbers don’t jump off the page: 136-of-221 (61.5 percent), 1,253 yards, nine touchdowns and eight interceptions in seven games. But it’s also important to keep perspective. Vedral is the first Rutgers quarterback to start at least seven games and complete at least 60 percent of his passes since Chris Laviano in 2015. With Vedral at the helm, Rutgers improved its scoring output by nearly two touchdowns per game from the previous season, jumping from last in the conference in 2019 to eighth in 2020.
“It’s been a number of years since Rutgers had as much offensive production as we did last year,” Schiano said. “It was a marked improvement, and Noah led it. To have him back again gives our guys a little bit of confidence.”
It wasn’t perfect, but there’s confidence in the quick-thinking Vedral to operate the scheme at a higher level of efficiency after a year to immerse himself in the offense.
The fifth-year senior doesn’t have to worry about a battle in camp. He’s the guy.
Excerpt from the athletic:
Noah Vedral had no ties to anyone at Rutgers when he transferred from Nebraska in May 2020. Then he, like most other players in the Big Ten, endured the strangest offseason ever while trying to learn coordinator Sean Gleeson’s up-tempo offense.
The numbers don’t jump off the page: 136-of-221 (61.5 percent), 1,253 yards, nine touchdowns and eight interceptions in seven games. But it’s also important to keep perspective. Vedral is the first Rutgers quarterback to start at least seven games and complete at least 60 percent of his passes since Chris Laviano in 2015. With Vedral at the helm, Rutgers improved its scoring output by nearly two touchdowns per game from the previous season, jumping from last in the conference in 2019 to eighth in 2020.
“It’s been a number of years since Rutgers had as much offensive production as we did last year,” Schiano said. “It was a marked improvement, and Noah led it. To have him back again gives our guys a little bit of confidence.”
It wasn’t perfect, but there’s confidence in the quick-thinking Vedral to operate the scheme at a higher level of efficiency after a year to immerse himself in the offense.
The fifth-year senior doesn’t have to worry about a battle in camp. He’s the guy.