MMQB: Let the kid play

TCU Football at Iowa State (10.5.19) Melissa TriebwasserMax Duggan has a lot of growing up to do as a Big 12 quarterback.

The true freshman out of Iowa has shown that as the schedule has gotten tougher.

Duggan’s EPA (expected points added) of .06 isn’t great, and is, in fact, second worst among passers in the conference:

For those of you that need a little more context for that stat, EPA is defined as “the measure of a play’s impact on the score of the game. An individual player’s EPA is the sum of the EPA of the plays in which that player was directly involved. Being directly involved is defined as an offensive player who ran, threw, or kicked the ball, was targeted by a pass, or flagged for…