He missed a year in HS and had a short Sr year. The development he has gotten here is seriously lacking, and a look at the coaches doing it explains a lot.
70% would mean a top-10 QB in that stat. B1G has three QBs above 65%. Half those in the top 28 are from G-5 schools. Yes, the passing game needs to evolve.
From the Vikings web page regarding Leidner:
Better coaching staff may have gotten more out of him, but passing wasn't his big skill so yeah ... not great. Fun to watch at times.
Both given away by coaches.
What a ridiculous post. Are you familiar with Kirk Cousins and Tua Tagovailoa? Former QB’s Kurt Warner and Philip Rivers? You think Tim Tebo in college did okay? I’m sure I’m missing many others.
I really liked Mitch Leidner. He was a tough kid and he used to run the QB draw like 20 times a game in an extremely boring and vanilla offense. He wasn't the best passer and was infuriating at times but eventually that comes down to coaching. He probably should have played LB or TE for us but he always gave 100 per cent, played hard and never quit. As a coach, if you aren't satisfied then you need to go out and either coach him up or recruit someone better. He was a warrior and worked extremely hard and I really wanted him to succeed.
Those pictures of his mangled foot was all I needed to see to know the guy gave it his all, all the time.
He sucked. He looks OK compared to 8, however.
I'm a believer that as far as QBs go they're born... a bad coach / team can make them perform worse, or a little better ... but the ceiling is all about the QB from some mysterious source we haven't yet identified.
Or find the right ones. Would have rather had Carson Wentz than whatever sack of rocks we had under center at the time.
I don't think it's hard to find talented QBs. The difficulty is getting them to agree to come to the U of M and Minneapolis.
His YPC against B1G teams was very bad and always came up short when it mattered. He was a garbage runner.
You do realize that in college QB sacks subtract from a QB's rushing yards? Even with that, he had 1500 yards rushing and 33 rushing TDs. Pretty impressive stats. And that was all with his mangled foot. Kaliakmanis is 1.1 YPC less than Leidner.
| ATT | COMP | COMP-% | INT | TD | YDS | YDS/ATT | TD/ 100 ATT | INT/100 ATT | TD RUSH | NCAA Pass Rtng | |
| MORGAN | 1063 | 661 | 62.18% | 32 | 65 | 9,469 | 8.9 | 6.1 | 3.0 | 8 | 151.2 |
| LEIDNER | 1029 | 580 | 56.37% | 32 | 36 | 7,287 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 33 | 121.2 |
| KALIAKMANIS | 316 | 171 | 54.11% | 13 | 11 | 2,236 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3 | 116.8 |
I am not an advocate for AK. His numbers aren’t compelling. I watched the Mitch/Kill/Claeys era and the QB play was incredibly unimpressive. He carried the ball way too often for a poor runner. He had a lot of yards and TDs because they would have him carry it all the time, to the detriment of the team. It was also completely predictable, leading to important red zone drive-killers.
Compared to Lamar Jackson, sure. Compared to all NFL QBs though, he's quick. His cone and shuttle times at the NFL combine were 4th and 6th. His NFL combine "athleticism" score had him ranked 6th among QBs. So the facts say you are wrong.
There were only 10-12 QBs that class that year that completed enough drills to get an “athleticism” score. So he was about avg for overall scoring.
I guess we'll disagree then. I just went back and watched some Leidner highlight videos. He's a good (not great) runner. I wish AK could run like that.
Leidner's toughness and WILL would be worth at least 1 more win (somehow). Tough SOB.
Couldn't keep him on the roster longer after 7 years.
AK is pretty fast and when he first got some time he ran decent. PJ is so far inside his head relative to sliding and making sure you don’t get hurt it’s f’d up his running ability. I don’t think a college quarterback should ever slide. It’s un American.
We had a bunch of good, not great quarterbacks. AAK and Cupito and Weber and Sauter…
