His first season at Auburn was a fairly successful one for Jarrett Stidham: the sophomore quarterback, who transferred from Baylor one year earlier, started all fourteen games and completed 246 of his 370 pass attempts (66.5%) for 3,158 yards (8.5 per attempt) as well as 18 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. Leading the Tigers to the SEC championship game, Stidham showed plenty of promise considering that he was a newbie in the system.
Then came 2018, and with it Stidham’s unsuccessful attempt at building on what was a pretty solid 2017 campaign. Across the board, his numbers went down: starting in thirteen games, the junior threw one fewer pass on the season than he did in his previous one, but saw his completion percentage decrease to 60.