Noah Whittington: Injury Recovery, Big Ten Defenses, and What It All Means for 2025
The 2024 season was full of ups and downs for Noah Whittington—something that, in hindsight, should have been expected given the injury he was recovering from. His yards per rush dropped by a full yard compared to his last full season in 2022. I believe there are two main factors behind that decline:
- Whittington wasn’t fully healthy to start the 2024 season.
- Big Ten defensive lines are a tier above those in the old Pac-12.
What I’m attempting to do here is determine if one of those two factors played a bigger role in Whittington’s drop in per-carry efficiency.