Tyrod Taylor Vs Jaybo Shaw

There are a few articles out there right now comparing Virginia Tech’s starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor with Georgia Tech’s starting quarterback Josh Nesbitt. Many comparisons can be made, as the two have very similar characteristics.

However, to mix things up a bit, I thought it would be interesting to compare Tyrod Taylor instead with Georgia Tech’s backup quarterback Jaybo Shaw.

To be fair, I wanted to follow up this article with another comparing Josh Nesbitt with Virginia Tech’s backup quarterback Ju-Ju Clayton; however, he is a freshmen this year, and has had no college experience for which to compare.

Overview:

There are some major differences between the two quarterbacks. Tyrod will be a junior this year while Jaybo is starting on his sophomore season.

In his first two years, Tyrod has started fifteen games with Virginia Tech, winning 13 of them. He has played in a total of 23 games.

In Jaybo’s first year with Georgia Tech, he started just one game and played in a total of seven, so Tyrod has started fourteen more games then Jaybo and played in over three times as many.

The data I will be looking at for each quarterback is from last season and includes; estimated quarters played, passing yards, passing touchdowns, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, total yards, and total touchdowns.

Quarters played:

Twelve quarters are what I estimated Jaybo to have played in last season, and this will be used to estimate yards per quarter.

Jaybo started only one game (against Duke), but in addition played nearly the entire game against Mississippi State, half of the Florida State game, and parts of the Miami, UNC and Jacksonville St games. He also came in for three snaps against UGA. Of these seven games, Georgia Tech was 6-1 losing only to UNC.

Thirty-six quarters are what I estimate Tyrod to have played in last season.

He started ten games last season against Georgia Tech, UNC, Nebraska, Western Kentucky, Boston College, FSU (injured on first play), Duke (pulled after first half), Virginia, the ACC Championship and the Orange Bowl. He also played parts of the Furman and Miami games. Of the eleven games Tyrod played in (I am not counting FSU), Virginia Tech was 8-2 losing to Boston College and Miami.

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