PISCATAWAY -- In college football, the passing statistic that separates your average quarterback from the good ones is 3,000 yards.
In 2016, only four Big Ten quarterbacks -- Penn State's Trace McSorley (3,614), Indiana's Richard Lagow (3,362), Purdue's David Blough (3,352) and Northwestern's Clayton Thorson (3,182) -- toppled the 3,000-yards barrier.
At Rutgers, no quarterback has achieved the 3,000-yards feat since Mike Teel did it in back-to-back seasons to conclude a record-setting career.
Since Teel threw for 3,418 yards in 2008, Rutgers' passing leaders have compiled the following totals:
- 2009: 2,211 (Tom Savage)
- 2010: 1,637 (Chas Dodd)
- 2011: 1,574 (Dodd)
- 2012: 2,695 (Gary Nova)
- 2013: 2,159 (Nova)
- 2014: 2,851 (Nova)
- 2015: 2,247 (Chris Laviano)
- 2016: 889 (Gio Rescigno)
It's a hard-to-fathom drought in an era of college football in which teams are producing video-game like passing statistics.