An Alabama troll account caught Auburn football fans by surprise, and infuriated the Crimson Tide faithful, with a take that Bo Nix is a superior QB prospect to Bryce Young.
Nix, now in line to start under center at Oregon, averaged seven wins a season for the Tigers in his three years on the Plains before graduating. Bryce Young, on the other hand, just led Alabama to an SEC Championship and National Championship game appearance in his first season as QB1. He was a freshman during the Tide’s 2020 title campaign backing up Mac Jones.
Comparing their 2021 seasons…well, there isn’t much of a comparison. Young’s completion percentage was five points higher than Nix’s and he surpassed 300 passing yards in 10 different games. Bo had one such game, his last as an Auburn Tiger.
The sentiment made by this Bammer, if by some chance said sentiment was anything resembling serious, was that Nix has a superior set of tools:
That got Auburn football fans talking, with varied responses:
I’ve been saying this for years. If bo went to Al over auburn he would have won a natty and a hesiman. Maybe even if he went to Georgia
— Andrew🦚🅿️ (@CardoneAndrew) May 17, 2022
Bo has better physical attributes, it’s not by a huge margin, and mentally, BY is way ahead. coaching he got at AU damaged him in that area, but his lack of pocket awareness and tendency to bail goes back to HS. That’s a terrible quality for an NFL qb and it’s hard to coach out.
— Clifton Hill (@cliffthill) May 18, 2022
Bo has happy feet and hopefully he will get proper coaching At Oregon to fix it
— FREEZINGINAUBURN (@bignizo) May 17, 2022
Alabama fans were pissed off, and not always completely aware of the context of AU’s 2021 slate:
Typical auburn fan. Their “star players” are always better but just have less talent around them then bama players. If Bryce young was at auburn they wouldn’t have gone 6-7 i promise you that. Bo nix is auburn football....overrated and unfulfilling
— Landon Pritchett (@LTPritchett) May 17, 2022
Well bo Nick he wanted to go to Auburn and he didn’t play good away nobody didn’t like where he played so he had to pay the consequences Young how you doing a good job Alabama you leave young loan he done a good job and Alabama
— Donald Mccombs (@DonaldMccombs16) May 18, 2022
50% career completion rater means he would never have seen the field for Bama; he was a legacy at the barn
— Mick keep your hands off of my Hurricane Gun (@crimson_mick) May 17, 2022
Former Auburn football QB Bo Nix could finish with more passing yards than Bryce Young in 2022
There’s a world of a difference between the Pac-12 and the SEC. Bo Nix will be challenged by Utah and…well, in the Pac-12, that’s it. He’ll be taking on Georgia in the season’s opening game against the defending National Champions in Atlanta.
Given the schedule, perhaps we’ll see plenty of Mississippi State repeat performances throughout the 2022 campaign, and it could lead to gaudier stats than Bryce Young, who is under a ton of pressure to adequately follow up a Heisman season in 2021.