If it wasn't for Tim Tebow charting Gator QBs would be easy for the above group where rushing wasn't a factor. Tebow had 3037 yards rushing in his career to go with 9,285 yards passing. He had 88 TD passes to go with 49 rushing for a grand total of 137.
Since Brantley is expected to throw the ball and run it far less than Tebow the stats below will concentrate on that area.
The chart below has the combined Fr/So - Freshman and Sophomore years C/A completion and attempts, % completion percentage and TDs/INTs. The next four slots are the junior years of the quarterbacks below including Swampie's prediction for John Brantley...
| Player | Fr/So C/A | % | Yds | Td/Int | Jr C/A | % | Yds | Td/Int |
| John Brantley | 54/76 | 71.1 | 645 | 10/1 | 245/365 | 67.0 | 3200 | 26-6 |
| Tim Tebow | 256/383 | 66.8 | 3490 | 37-7 | 192/298 | 64.4 | 2746 | 21-5 |
| Chris Leak | 428/719 | 59.5 | 5632 | 45-12 | 235/374 | 62.8 | 2639 | 20-6 |
| Rex Grossman | 390/607 | 64.5 | 5762 | 55-19 | 287/503 | 57.1 | 3402 | 22-17 |
| Danny Wuerffel | 291/485 | 60.0 | 3984 | 40-19 | 210/325 | 64.6 | 3266 | 35-10 |
| Shane Matthews | 447/739 | 60.5 | 6082 | 51-30 | 275/463 | 59.4 | 3205 | 23-16 |
| Kerwin Bell | 278/472 | 58.9 | 4301 | 37-15 | 131/242 | 54.1 | 1515 | 10-10 |
| Wayne Peace | 250/453 | 55.2 | 3074 | 16-20 | 174/246 | 70.7 | 2053 | 8-10 |
What jumps out at this man besides the amount of experience all the other guys had by the time they were juniors, is how Urban Meyer football has drastically changed the TD to INT ratios. It is interesting to note Brantley's lone INT was on a tipped pass.
Rex Grossman had a horrible season after finishing third in the Heisman voting his sophomore year. A new staff and losing a couple of receivers to the NFL really hurt. Grossman was hard headed, actually got a caustic email from his dad requesting I lay off of his son.
I had written he was erratic, throwing a great pass then seemingly losing concentration and chunking up an INT. That was after his freshman season, I laid off thinking maybe I was too hard on him, but he went on with his career at Florida and onto the NFL and proved Swampie right. Always liked Grossman but consistency wasn't his trademark.
It seems it isn't too much to expect Brantley to complete 67% of his passes this fall other real quarterback before him threw for darn near that percentage (66.8%) as a freshman and sophomore.
Florida is a run first football team, Tebow was good enough to sling it around a lot more than they did in his career. Doubt Brantley throws it 45% of the time, would think he goes around 3,100 yards, 3,400 for the season at most. He will throw around 25 TDs and keep it down to 6 or 7 INTs depending on the amount of mistakes his receivers make.
Every QB who's started for any amount of time at Florida has won big at the high school level...
John Brantley - Owned a 27-1 record as a starter, won a state championship his junior year and was runner up his senior year. Broke the state record for career touchdown passes with 99, topping the total of 98 shared by UF quarterback Tim Tebow and Florida State signal-caller Xavier Lee…Threw for 2,766 yards and 41 touchdowns in his final prep season…Established a Trinity Catholic career passing record with 6,802 yards…Was an all-state selection in Class 2B…A Scout.com five-star passer who was named the Most Valuable Player of the Elite 11 Quarterback Camp…
Tim Tebow - Lead Nease to their 1st ever state championship, threw for 9,940 yards and 98 TDs.
Chris Leak - 46-0, lead team to three straight state championships 2000, 2001, 2002, 185 TD passes
Rex Grossman - Won 5A title in Indiana, 7,518 yards and 97 TDs in his career, Parade AA
Danny Wuerffel - 14-0 State title at Ft. Walton Beach and #2 national ranking
Shane Matthews - Led Pascagoula to 14-0 record and state championship in Mississippi 1988
Kerwin Bell - nickname in high school the throwin' Mayoan couldn't find record his team did play very well for Mayo and beat some people.
Wayne Peace - 11-2 Lakeland team lost in the state semifinals to physically dominant Pine Forest 26-14
John Reaves - As a senior in 1967, he led Tampa Robinson Class 2A football semifinal game before losing to the Coral Gables, who won the state championship and were ranked as the national champions afterward. Reaves was lauded as the State Player of the Year. He also played basketball and baseball and ran track for the Knights, and once scored fifty-two points in a high school basketball game.
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