SEC Network analyst: Jacob Eason may already be SEC’s best passer

Be alert.

The Jacob Eason hype train is on the track and running at full speed following Saturday’s spring game.

SEC Network analyst Anthony “Booger” McFarland has apparently hopped on the train and is making a good case for being the conductor with some of the tweets he sent out on Monday morning.

McFarland claims that Eason may already be the SEC’s best passer:

Jacob Eason might be the best passer in SEC already, doesn't mean he is the best QB but he can spin it

— Booger (@ESPNBooger) April 18, 2016

Don’t get us wrong, we all enjoyed the debut of the five-star signee at Saturday’s G-Day.

Eason finished the spring game, which was played in front of 93,000 excited Georgia fans, with 244 yards passing and a touchdown after completing 19 of 29 attempts.

It was impressive, but let’s not get carried away.

The true freshman has yet to throw a pass in live conference play. He was under no fear of being hit by the friendly fire of the Bulldogs defense, and he wasn’t exactly seeing the complex blitz packages he can expect opposing teams to throw at him this fall.

But to be fair to McFarland, he did say “passer” and not “quarterback”, which was his out on Twitter when Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly was brought up as a rebuttal to him comment.

@mikem1202 Kelly is best QB in SEC going into season

— Booger (@ESPNBooger) April 18, 2016

There’s a chance that McFarland will turn out to be correct in his assessment, but let’s see Eason win the Bulldogs starting job and show his skills in a real game before we anoint him the prince of the SEC QB fraternity.

Nick Cole

Nick Cole is a former print journalist with several years of experience covering the SEC. Born and raised in SEC country, he has taken in the game-day experience at all 14 stadiums.