Miami quarterback Darian Mensah is off to a start absolutely nobody has seen in decades, throwing more touchdown passes than incompletions through the first four games of the season. Think about that for a second, because it’s wild: 14 touchdown passes against just 12 incompletions. That’s not just good, that’s video game level stuff.
The Numbers Are Getting Hard to Ignore
What Mensah is doing puts him in a league of his own, literally. He’s the only FBS quarterback in 30 years to pull off more touchdown passes than incompletions through his first four games. CBS Sports Research went digging through box scores back to 2004, and get this: no one else had done it through three games either, except one other guy this season. Georgia’s Gunner Stockton actually matched Mensah early, tossing nine touchdowns against only seven incompletions through three weeks, compared to Mensah’s 11 TDs and eight incompletions at that point. But then Week 4 hit, and Stockton’s run ended against Oklahoma, leaving him with 10 touchdowns and 18 incompletions after a tougher outing. The only other QB since 2004 to have more TDs than incompletions through three games was Robert Griffin III in 2011, the year he won the Heisman. Mensah is just on another level right now, and the stats are screaming it. His completion percentage has not dropped below 85% in any of his four games, and he has thrown at least three touchdown passes in every single one.
Building a Legacy, One Unstoppable Drive at a Time
Mensah’s insane efficiency isn’t just about clean sheets on the stat page. Miami is sitting pretty at 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the ACC after they absolutely dismantled Central Michigan 52-3. In that game alone, Mensah went 23 of 27 for 338 yards, with three passing touchdowns and another one on the ground. Coach Mario Cristobal, who played on Miami’s ’91 national championship team, is already talking about those legends getting “bigger than King Kong and Godzilla,” but Mensah is out there building his own legend every Saturday. The dude hasn’t thrown an interception at Miami yet, and he’s got the sport’s longest active streak with a touchdown pass in 22 straight games. Remember Week 3? He completed his first 24 passes against Wake Forest, an ACC record. As Mensah himself said, “We’ve come a long way and we’ve shown some good things… But like Cristobal always says, we’ve got a long way to go.” His coach agrees, saying Mensah’s “skill set really fits what we do.” When he throws for a career-high 401 yards and five touchdowns, it is clear.
Mensah’s Heisman case is picking up serious steam, and every game he plays just adds to the fire. It’s early in the season, but he is already doing things we haven’t seen in a generation. He’s got the talent and the confidence, and it is going to be a wild ride watching him continue to chase history.
Elsewhere in the sports world, a tough road loss for the Seattle Seahawks last night, falling 33-31 to the Washington Commanders. That one stings a bit.
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Originally reported by CBS Sports.
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