Yeah 17 for 23 overall with 5 made FGs over 50 yds including back to back games with 56yd FGs made. 150 of 150 in PATs. We’d be drooling over a guy that’s got a cannon for a leg like that and accuracy on PATs not that we see the endzone much any more. Our guys line up from 45-50 yds and the balls land softly in the endzone. It completely changes our game between the 25 and the 40 and very few if any P5 teams are as woeful at FGs as we are now.
I made no mention of Curry. Is that your bar for LB excellence? It's not mine. Curry did as best he could but I believe everyone's in agreement that after year 3, the extra 3 years he played did not result in any appreciable improvement in his game play.
I was comparing Eley to other D1 LBs. He's played over 1600 snaps, so it's not absence of data driving his ratings down and he's played 4 years under 2 different staffs at 2 different schools. Looked his profile up on draft review & they have him evaluated at #79 LB if he entered this year, avg draft site has him #91. He's got the physical tools to be much better. He's fast & strong say the NFL guys, but does not know his position is the downside and that's after 5 yrs in college. "Catch & drags, takes wrong route to ball, bad angles, doesn't wrap up efficiently". A lot to correct in his last year to get him competitive.
Cimaglia's longest FG is 34 yds, that's a ball spotted on the 17 with 7 yds from snapper to holder and 10 yds for the endzone. He's not made a single FG outside of 40 yds in an entire year. We can't even make a FG with the ball spotted on the 20. Does that sound like a good FG kicker to you? College kickers should hit at least half from 40-50 yds, not zero.
I want our players to do well, but if our program is going to move forward in my opinion we have to shift our strategy from hoping the light comes on for a guy in year 6 & start playing the kids we recruited that are sitting on the bench watching us getting bitch slapped before they leave the program for other schools that will use their talents. Yeah fill a position or 2 with portal projects, but I don't think relying on that to man half your team is a winning strategy.
