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QB CJ Stroud (All B1G, 2022 B1G QB of the Year, All-American, NFL OROY, Houston Texans)

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Big Ten football players generating most buzz ahead of 2022 season

C.J. STROUD, QB - OHIO STATE
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Stroud is in the Heisman Trophy conversation. It’s as simple as that. He was there last year and will be again this year, with returning winner Bryce Young (Alabama) and others. Stroud is clearly the best quarterback in the Big Ten and proved it in 2021 during his first year as the starter. He certainly has the stuff to lead Ohio State to a Big Ten title and a potential national championship in 2022. Last season, he passed for 4,435 yards with 44 touchdowns to six interceptions, completing passes at a 71.9% clip. Good luck dethroning this man as the top player in the conference.

Entire article: https://247sports.com/college/ohio-...z-ahead-of-2022-season-192025732/#192025732_1
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Over/Under on CJ Rushing Yards this season 250 yards. Easy money on the Over. He wont be JT on the read option but word is he's so much better on it that it's scary. Music to my ears.

I know, I know I didn't say where the "word" came from but information is 100%
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I'm not so sure. According to ESPN's stats (with 13 sacks) he had a negative 20 yards rushing last year. I just don't see Day wanting to risk injury to Stroud by calling a lot of QB runs/read options, etc.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/gamelog/_/id/4432577

However, if the "word" came from the UPS girl it was probably reliable....:lol:


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C.J. STROUD GIVES $500 EXPRESS GIFT CARDS TO ENTIRE OHIO STATE FOOTBALL TEAM TO BUY NEW GAME DAY SUITS

C.J. Stroud wants his entire team to be looking fly on game day.

In a post-practice speech shared Thursday by the Ohio State football team on its official Twitter account, Stroud told the Buckeyes that he was giving every player a $500 gift card to Express – one of his NIL sponsors – to buy new suits for the 2022 season.

“I just wanted to do something for the team, so I get everybody $500 gift cards to go to Express and get y’all own suit,” Stroud said, drawing a roar of cheers from his teammates. “Make sure y’all really get some suits, look fly. Make sure we all look good as a team.”

Stroud officially became a brand ambassador for Express, a Columbus-based fashion retailer, in April along with Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...state-football-team-to-buy-new-game-day-suits



Nice gesture. I don't know if it all came out of CJ's pocket or not (i.e Express could have gave him a "deal" on that many gift certificates); regardless, I'll be that Express gets over ≈$50K (= $500 x ≈100 players) worth of advertising/good will from it too.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
C.J. STROUD GIVES $500 EXPRESS GIFT CARDS TO ENTIRE OHIO STATE FOOTBALL TEAM TO BUY NEW GAME DAY SUITS

C.J. Stroud wants his entire team to be looking fly on game day.

In a post-practice speech shared Thursday by the Ohio State football team on its official Twitter account, Stroud told the Buckeyes that he was giving every player a $500 gift card to Express – one of his NIL sponsors – to buy new suits for the 2022 season.

“I just wanted to do something for the team, so I get everybody $500 gift cards to go to Express and get y’all own suit,” Stroud said, drawing a roar of cheers from his teammates. “Make sure y’all really get some suits, look fly. Make sure we all look good as a team.”

Stroud officially became a brand ambassador for Express, a Columbus-based fashion retailer, in April along with Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba.

Entire article: https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...state-football-team-to-buy-new-game-day-suits



Nice gesture. I don't know if it all came out of CJ's pocket or not (i.e Express could have gave him a "deal" on that many gift certificates); regardless, I'll be that Express gets over ≈$50K (= $500 x ≈100 players) worth of advertising/good will from it too.
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I believe NIL is prevalent here, but CJ still was pretty selfless in getting the team gift cards to Express rather than that $ going straight to him on some other deal, though I am not sure $500 will even get them a suit jacket at Express (particularly the OL/DL who will have to get special fitted probably). First time I have seen a player do something positive like this with NIL (may be others, I just haven't seen it). A really smart use of NIL by Express as well, they are based in Columbus and will get great publicity from the video alone and probably drives in a ton of OSU fans when players are going to get their suits. Either way, still cool.
 
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RB07OSU said:
I believe NIL is prevalent here, but CJ still was pretty selfless in getting the team gift cards to Express rather than that $ going straight to him on some other deal, though I am not sure $500 will even get them a suit jacket at Express (particularly the OL/DL who will have to get special fitted probably). First time I have seen a player do something positive like this with NIL (may be others, I just haven't seen it). A really smart use of NIL by Express as well, they are based in Columbus and will get great publicity from the video alone and probably drives in a ton of OSU fans when players are going to get their suits. Either way, still cool.
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I can’t wait for Dawand to roll in and get measured for anything at Express
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Looking at the Express sit it looks like they specialize in "slim" suits/coats/clothes. Maybe CJ should have given the OL a gift certificate at Thornton Mellon's Tall And Fat Store:



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https://theathletic.com/3565250/2022/09/05/cj-stroud-ohio-state-the-opening/

C.J. Stroud: From overshadowed to Ohio State star, thanks to talent, chess and Jaxon Smith-Njigba

By Bruce Feldman
4h ago

The buzz didn’t take long to spread throughout the whole football camp. Coaches who always are searching for the next big thing — or better still, that one player flying under the radar — began asking each other, “Who is the unheralded kid killing it?” Players were even more direct, talking to each other about the “three-star kid” dominating the camp competition. Even the NFL guys in attendance to help drop some pointers had begun to gush.

That camp was a 2019 Nike-sponsored event called The Opening and it was being held at The Star, the Dallas Cowboys facility in Frisco, Texas. Some 200 of the country’s top high school seniors had flown in for the event. Among that group were two dozen quarterbacks who had been invited to the Elite 11 based on their performances at a series of regional workouts. Some, like five-star quarterback Bryce Young, arrived with fully formed reputations. Most of the quarterbacks were blue-chippers who’d already been wooed by college coaches and picked their schools.

C.J. Stroud, who’d come up in the shadows of Young and fellow uber-prospect DJ Uiagelalei in Southern California, was the outlier.

But when the 7-on-7 competition got into swing, it was Stroud, not Young, who was the quarterback on Team Savage that everyone couldn’t take their eyes off. Stroud looked surgical, carving up defenses. The ball barely hit the ground.

Julian Fleming, one of the go-to receivers on Team Savage, approached one of his friends on a different team — fellow Ohio State commit Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Fleming simply said, “Hey, C.J.’s like that.” Both future Buckeyes then chatted up Stroud, who at the time had a handful of Pac-12 and Mountain West offers. Stroud told them he was not really sure where he should go.

After Smith-Njigba walked away, he and Fleming called Ohio State coach Ryan Day.

“I said, ‘We need to get this guy. He’s special,’” Smith-Njigba told The Athletic.

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Steve19 said:
He hurt his chances for the Heisman against ND, but there is a long season ahead.
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I wouldn't say he hurt them at all. He didn't have a huge statement game, but in no way was it a negative. He got the W against #5 on prime time without his fellow Heisman candidate WR, played well down the stretch when it mattered most, and put up decent (even if modest by his standards) stats. The bulk of the season he'll put up huge stats, and then he gets a chance at finishing the year with two more statement games against scUM and in the CG. Week 1 is a distant memory to the voters by that point. All they'll remember is he won and didn't have a bad game.
 
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College football is a game of small sample sizes, so drawing conclusions from numerical analysis of the game is dicey at best. After 1 game, you can multiply that by roughly 1,437,908,246.5

Having said that, there were some trends in that game that are promising. Whether these trends will continue is not a prediction I care to make... see above. These trends, nascent though they are, point to a quarterback with the kind of killer instinct that wins championships.

Some of you might remember another QB that seemed to have that killer instinct: Justin Fields - 2019. Justin's passing efficiency was 181.43 that year, but it was 235.86 on 3rd and long. He was good on other downs (that efficiency was a school record at the time), but he was money on 3rd and long (10+ yards). Some of you might be young enough to remember that I dissected his 3rd down performance play-by-play that year and discovered the following:

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If you don't want to pour over all those numbers to glean meaning from them, here's the TL/DR version: Justin was better on 3rd and long because teams were less likely to blitz on 3rd and long. If you gave him time, he would kill you. If you blitzed, especially if it was a delayed and disguised blitz, he didn't process the change fast enough to maintain the same efficiency. Not casting aspersions, those are just the facts. Unfortunately, random-message-board-guy (me, if you had any doubt of that) wasn't the only one to notice this. In 2020, the book was out on Justin and his efficiency was 175.56 overall but was only 135.60 on 3rd and long... because he faced a LOT more blitzes on 3rd and long that year.

This bring us to Stroud's performance on Saturday night. His overall efficiency was 145.10. He had worse days last year, but Saturday was his lowest passing efficiency ever on a day in which he did not throw an interception. His first down completion percentage was > 11 points lower than last year. Point being, when the pressure was entirely internal, he pressed too hard. On 3rd down however, his completion percentage was 80%. He did the same last year; his completion percentage was 81% on 3rd and long last year.

The difference comes in when look at what happened when he was pressured. I'll concede that the sack on the first play wasn't great, but if you look at the game as a whole it was clear that Marcus Freeman was not going to let Stroud get comfortable on 3rd and long. When he brought a delayed blitz on 3rd and 11, Stroud threw the Laser To Xavier for 6 points. On a night when his passing efficiency was an appalling 87.73 on first down, when the pressure was all internal, Stroud threw for an efficiency of 245.12 on 3rd down when the pressure of keeping the drive alive was palpable, as was the pressure brought by the frequent blitzes of the Irish defense.

Sure, the sample sizes are small, and no, I'm not suggesting we draw conclusions here. But there is a trend here that suggests that when Stroud gets into his groove and his 1st down passing returns to form, defenses will not be able to get this Ohio State offense off the field. Let's hope that trend continues.
 
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