Boise State Football: QBs Maddux Madsen, Taylen Green to Split Time vs. San Jose State
The Broncos will introduce a new-old wrinkle as they look to turn their season around and keep their heads above water in conference play.
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What’s old is new on the blue.
Things haven’t gone according to plan for the Boise State Broncos in 2023, so head coach Andy Avalos announced during his weekly press conference on Monday that quarterbacks Maddux Madsen and Taylen Green will both see the field during the Broncos’ clash against San Jose State on Saturday.
Sounds like Andy Avalos is going to let both QBs to play this week against SJSU.
“This week in practice, we will allow both of them to get reps with the first team.”
— Jordan Kaye (@jordankaye_23) October 2, 2023
This isn’t the first time that Boise State has dipped into this particular well, as Avalos himself noted, since both Brett Rypien and Montell Cozart saw time under center for the Broncos during their 2017 Mountain West championship run. The gambit does take place under much different circumstances this time, however, as Green has started every game thus far but struggled with consistency, completing only 52.6% of his throws for 938 yards, four touchdowns, and four interceptions.
Madsen, meanwhile, has been relatively effective in relief so far, completing 22-of-32 attempts for 319 yards and four touchdowns. However, according to Pro Football Focus, the disparity in performance may be less clear-cut: Green, of course, adds a dimension to the offense with his legs, with 203 sack-adjusted rushing yards to date, but his big-time throw percentage is up from 2022, as well, and currently outpaces Madsen’s own (4.9% to 2.9%). PFF also notes that Green’s receivers have already dropped as many passes, eight, as they had in his whole redshirt freshman year last fall.
Whoever ends up seeing the lion’s share of the workload will be under pressure to perform against a Spartans secondary that was overrun by the likes of USC and Oregon but held their own against Cal Poly and Toledo in non-conference action. We’ll see with which cohort the Broncos are more closely aligned when the game kicks off at 6:00 PM Mountain/5:00 PM Pacific on CBS Sports Network this Saturday.
