While the Syracuse offense has improved with a more diverse attack, its defense has proven as reliable as it was a year ago, limiting FBS opponents to 5.4 yards per play. Four Syracuse players have double-digit receptions so far this season. At 6’5, he’s a big target who can create problems down the field. Jordan Travis (118), DJU (73) and Holton Ahlers (57) are responsible for 3 of the 4 best rushing performances NC State has allowed this year.- ️♈️ October 13, 2022Īt receiver, Oronde Gadsden is in the midst of a breakout year and leads the team with 366 receiving yards and three touchdown grabs. QBs have accounted for 358 - 48% - of them. NC State has allowed 743 rushing yards (not counting sacks) this season. Shrader remains a solid threat with his legs as well, which is worrying for an NC State defense that has been leaky against mobile quarterbacks. Pretty good idea, I’d say, to get the ball in his hands more frequently. Syracuse has gotten him more involved in the passing game as well: he has 19 receptions, which is second on the team, and puts him on pace to crush his reception total from last year (20). Only three guys have double-figure rushing attempts: Tucker, Shrader, and freshman running back LeQuint Allen, who is third on the team with. Tucker averages 22 carries per game and is essentially the only back who handles the ball. Tucker ran for perhaps the quietest 1,500 yards in history last season, on account of the team’s visible struggles, and his workload has increased in 2022. And Syracuse still has all-conference running back Sean Tucker to rely on. Obviously, it helps a lot when your passing game goes from awful to useful. He’s completed 66.4% of his attempts in four games against FBS opponents, and already has more touchdown passes (10) than he did in 2021 (9). In two ACC games this year, he’s at 69% and 8.8, respectively. In league play last season, Shader completed barely 51% of his throws and averaged an abysmal 5.7 yards per attempt. (And not merely the product of a forgiving early schedule.) Those additions have clearly helped Garrett Shrader, whose improvement as a passer this season has been dramatic. Syracuse has a new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, both of whom were casualties of the coaching change at UVA. But Babers-and perhaps more importantly, his quarterback-figured a few things out just in the nick of time. Dino Babers was sitting on a warming seat after three straight losing seasons coming into 2022, and not much was expected to change for his program, as the Orange were picked to finish last in the Atlantic Division.
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