This Football Player Has Better Stats Than Tim Tebow!

So you probably have not heard of Dan LeFevour unless you are a fan of Central Michigan Universty or a real college football nut.  But amazingly this quarterback has better stats than the University of Florida’s Tim Tebow.  Yes, you read that right.  But before you start poor mouthing CMU and their schedule, let’s look at it.

First of all, let’s look at LeFevour’s stats.  Dan has 12,604 total yards in his career.  Tebow has 9,341.  That puts LeFevour 11th all time in Division I football.  So he is not playing Division I-AA or Division II or II.  And while he is not playing in the SEC, Pac-10, or Big 12, he is playing Division I football.   He has completed 65.7% of career passes and averaged 4.5 yards a carry when he runs.  So he is a Tebow type quarterback.   And at 6′3″ and 238 pounds, he is a big, strong football player.

Now, we have to acknowledge that he does play in the MAC conference and his toughest opponents are typically Michigan State and Boston College.  So it does make it a little tough to compare and say just how good LeFevour is.  But here is my comparison at this point.

NFL scouts rate LeFevour as a first or second round pick.  Most analysts won’t give Tebow a chance as a first round pick.  What that tells me is that Tim Tebow is a great college football player who may or may not make it in the NFL.  And Dan LeFevour is a pretty good college player who should continue to develop and will probably make it in the NFL, although he probably won’t start in his early pro career.

By his own admission, LeFevour was raw as a quarterback when he got to college.  “I had to learn to be a quarterback” he says on the subject.  So bottom line, my thoughts are that LeFevour has better stats and is probably a better long term pro prospect at quarterback than Tebow.  But no doubt in my mind, Tebow is the better college player playing in a tougher conference against tougher competition.  As a big Georgia fan, that’s hard for me to admit.  In fact, I am getting a little tired of hearing about Tim Tebow.   He’s a great young man and a great college football player, but I think that we’ll hear more about Dan LeFevour in the future than we will about Tim Tebow.  Just my humble opinion.