Kenny Pickett just broke a 40-year-old Dan Marino record at Pitt

Kenny Pickett broke a 40-year-old single-season passing record set by none other than Pitt football legend Dan Marino.

It was a record 40 years in the breaking, as Pitt football star quarterback Kenny Pickett has thrown for more touchdown passes in a season than Dan Marino.

Though this may be a different era of college football, Pickett has drawn a lot of comparisons to Marino this season, and for good reason. In a relatively weak quarterback draft class, Pickett has more often than not asserted his dominance over the competition. He can run it and he can spin it with the best of them. Check out Pickett’s record-setting 38th touchdown on the season for Pitt.

After the Syracuse game, Pitt will face Wake Forest in the 2021 ACC Championship in Charlotte.

Pitt football star QB Kenny Pickett breaks a Dan Marino passing record

While it remains to be seen if Pickett will get an invitation to the Heisman Trophy ceremony or be the first quarterback taken in the 2022 NFL Draft, he has cemented himself as a Pitt football legend. With presumably a win over Wake Forest in Charlotte, the Panthers will find themselves playing in almost certainly the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl as part of this year’s New Year’s Six games.

Had Pitt not lost a dumb one very early in the year in the non-conference to Western Michigan, this team would be in contention for a College Football Playoff berth. However, the ACC has been down the entire year. Clemson has struggled and no team will come out of the regular season with more than two losses. Still, this has been a phenomenal year for Pickett and the Pitt football team.

If Pickett is half the player Marino was in the NFL, then he will be a total franchise game-changer.

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