Rutgers’ penalty yards with Dylan Lonergan and without Dylan Lonergan
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Rutgers was 20.2 yards under with Dylan Lonergan and 13.9 yards under without Dylan Lonergan in 2026, 4 games against 3. The plain averages are 26.4 and 36.7, a difference of 10.3.
Dylan Lonergan, quarterback: 1,066 passing yards, 127 pass attempts and 74 completions in 6 games this season.
3 games without Dylan Lonergan is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
penalty yards a game over expected
with Dylan Lonergan
−20.2
without Dylan Lonergan
−13.9
-40-200
A −6.3 difference in penalty yards over expected with Dylan Lonergan vs without Dylan Lonergan is about what you’d expect.
plain
26.4
36.7
10203040
A −10.3 difference in penalty yards with Dylan Lonergan vs without Dylan Lonergan is about what you’d expect.
The games
with Dylan Lonerganwithout Dylan Lonergan
| Side | Date | Game | Result | penalty yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 2026 | vs UMass | L | 34 | 53.9 | |
| Sep 11, 2026 | @ Boston College | L | 40 | 55.6 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vs USC | L | 39 | 46.2 | |
| Sep 25, 2026 | vsHHoward | W | 15 | — | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | vs Indiana | L | 5 | 45.5 | |
| Oct 17, 2026 | @ Maryland | W | 39 | 52.5 | |
| Oct 24, 2026 | @ Northwestern | L | 35 | 50.8 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | vs Michigan | L | 35 | 45.4 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, minus 1.3 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 27% of the difference the model predicts.
- The shuffle keeps the season’s shape: the games are cut in two where one date leaves the least variance, each game is read against its stretch, and the sides are shuffled only inside each stretch.
- Howard has no other game in the table, so that game has no expected number and sits out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists, which name every player who entered the game.
- With him means he was the team’s quarterback that game, at least half of its pass attempts; a game he left early or came into late reads as without him.