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He reminds me a lot of Randy Fasani. A gifted athlete with a great arm. But not particularly accurate.

That may be a close comparison, they were both guys who are big and athletic - almost to the point where you might imagine them playing linebacker if they were not QBs. (I guess Fasani did play TE(?) for awhile, he's credited with two catches his freshman year.) Both could run, had big arms, and both had issues with accuracy (though Chryst's career story is far from fully told).

However, it may also be worth noting that Fasani's career completion percentage was 51% whereas Cryst is at 57%; a significant difference. Fasani also never had three games in a row where he put together as good passing stats as Chryst did vs Oregon, Cal, and Rice (in which Chryst completed 66% of his passes with a PER=180.5.)


[Figuring out in detail Fasani's best three game stretch is a little tricky given that stats from ca. 2000 are tough to find easily, coupled to the fact that Fasani got injured a lot so missed a lot of gametime. It does appear that during Fasani's time playing, Stanford never had a three game stretch with passing stats as good as Chryst's finishing flourish. The best I saw for the team during Fasani's tenure would be 60% completions, PER=138 (2001 vs UCLA, UW, UA).  Of course three games is a vaery small sample, so I wouldn't read too much into that.]

[CTcard]

He reminds me a lot of Randy Fasani. A gifted athlete with a great arm. But not particularly accurate.

That may be a close comparison, they were both guys who are big and athletic - almost to the point where you might imagine them playing linebacker if they were not QBs. (I guess Fasani did play TE(?) for awhile, he's credited with two catches his freshman year.) Both could run, had big arms, and both had issues with accuracy (though Chryst's career story is far from fully told).

However, it may also be worth noting that Fasani's career completion percentage was 51% whereas Cryst is at 57%; a significant difference. Fasani also never had three games in a row where he put together as good passing stats as Chryst did vs Oregon, Cal, and Rice (in which Chryst completed 66% of his passes with a PER=180.5.)


[Figuring out in detail Fasani's best three game stretch is a little tricky given that stats from ca. 2000 are tough to find easily, coupled to the fact that Fasani got injured a lot so missed a lot of gametime. It does appear that during Fasani's time playing, Stanford never had a three game stretch with passing stats as good as Chryst's finishing flourish. The best I saw for the team during Fasani's tenure would be 60% completions, PER=138 (2001 vs UCLA, UW, UA).  Of course three games is a vaery small sample, so I wouldn't read too much into that.]