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#7 Ryan Dinwiddie
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WAC Player of the Year
Boise
State QB Ryan Dinwiddie, Sr. |
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Another
year, another huge year by a Boise State quarterback. Ryan
Dinwiddie was magnificent in leading the Broncos to a
stunningly easy WAC season and another league title. The
senior threw for 4,031 yards and 28 touchdowns with only
five interceptions.
For being known as a conference with tons of offense, the
WAC had several great defensive performances. Hawaii's
Travis LaBoy and Nevada's Jorge Cordova were nearly
unstoppable at getting into the backfield, while San Jose
State safety Gerald Jones did it all from picking off passes
to being in on what seemed like all the team's tackles.
The Coach of the Year was a no-brainer as Tulsa's Steve
Kragthorpe did a marvelous job of getting the Golden
Hurricane to a bowl game despite losing a starting
quarterback before the season and with the same players that
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Ryan is a smaller Quarterback that doesn’t play in a pro style
offense at Boise State but he brings a lot of toughness and
heart to the field. He does often throw the ball form his back
foot though. Ryan has quick feet and gets in and out his drop
quickly. However, he is taking most of snaps from the shot gun
and has no experience in drops of 5+ steps. He has a good
delivery, but will drop his arm to a ¾ angle at times. The
ball certainly doesn’t jump out of his hand as Ryan has an only
average release. Ryan doesn’t throw a clean ball either as
lots of his passes aren’t spirals. He has average arm strength
showing he can put the ball down the field, but it doesn’t get
their in a hurry by any means. Ryan has good speed and
quickness showing the ability to avoid a rush and also make a
play down the field with his feet. Ryan has average field
vision but does keep his field up the field when flushed out of
the pocket. He does see the entire field, but doesn’t have the
confidence in his reads to make them all and rarely moves past
his second read. Even out of the shot gun he will jump to his
check down too quickly. He is an average ball handler with
average ball fakes and pump fakes. He is inexperienced running
play action passes as well.
He
has good short accuracy completing nearly all of his passes
fewer than five yards. He throws them with good touch and
leading his receivers nicely. Ryan also throws an impressive
slant route leading his receiver nicely and keeping it away
from the defender. As he throws the ball further down the
field Ryan loses a lot of accuracy. He puts too much air
under his deep throws, but when he is accurate, he is very
accurate.
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