Agree to disagree. I think that a quarterback is more than a passer - his job is to move the ball down the field to score points.
Here's some rough numbers on points per game by quarterback. (I found points per game per season, and I'm going by that quarterback is always the quarterback. I know there's flaws in this system, but I'm at work so this is what I did.)
Bellisari 99-01 - 26.79 ppg
Krenzel 02-03 - 27.03 ppg
2004 - Smith & Zwick - 24.17 ppg
Smith 05-06 - 32.38 ppg
Boeckman 07 - 31.38 ppg
Pryor - 08-10 - 31.79 ppg (Yes, I know that the beginning of 2008 was Boeckman's. If you want to take that out of Pryor's numbers, his average becomes 33.88ppg)
2011 - Miller & I can't even remember his name - 24.46
Miller - 12-13 - 41.33
Barrett - 14-17 - 40.25
Haskins - 18 - 42.36
Fields - 19-20 - 43.93
Stroud - 21-22 - 44.96
McCord - 23 - 30.54
Howard - 24 - 35.69
Sayin - 25 - 33.43
So, Pryor is pretty low on the list, unless you compare his numbers to just Tressell's teams. You can see a huge jump in numbers from Tressell to Meyer, so let's not compare Pryor to those quarterbacks. Ohio State averaged 29.58 ppg from 2001 to 2010. He's right there below Smith, who we all agree belongs on the list. And 2010 was 38.77 ppg, whereas 2006 was 34.62ppg.
(Note that I took the number of points scored each year and divided by number of games. Then, to do that over multiple seasons, I just averaged the two averages, which works if the number of games for each year is the same. But it isn't. If anyone wants to look at this deeper, check out this website.
https://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/OhioState.htm)
