Final 2025 report card for USC’s offense

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Sadly, the 2025 football season is officially over. The Indiana Hoosiersare college football national champions, the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions, and we have another six months until the greatest sport in the world returns.

With some more time on our hands now, it is a great opportunity to look back on USC’s season. This week, we will be giving report cards for the 2025 Trojans. Up first: offense.

Quarterback: A-

It was a very good first full season as USC’s starting quarterback for Jayden Maiava. Starting all 13 games for the Trojans, he threw for 3,711 yards and 24 touchdowns, while also adding six scores on the ground.

The only thing keeping Maiava from earning an A grade were his turnovers—he threw ten interceptions on the season. If Maiava can learn to protect the football better while continuing to produce at this season’s pace, he has the chance to be one of the best quarterbacks in the country in 2026.

Wide receivers: A

When you have the Biletnikoff Award winner on your team, that generally means you have a pretty good receiver room. That was indeed the case for USC in 2025, as Makai Lemon took home the honor as college football’s top pass catcher. In addition, Ja’Kobi Lane and Tanook Hines both had very solid seasons of their own.

The only reason that this unit did not earn an A+ was because the Trojans did not have nearly as much depth at the position as they did in years past. Still, this was a fantastic season for USC’s wide receivers.

Running backs: B+

It was a rather bizarre season for USC’s running back back room. For the first six games of the season, Waymond Jordan and Eli Sanders formed what was shaping up to be one of the top running back duos in the Big Ten. Then, after both players suffered injuries in the Michigan game that ultimately sidelined them for the rest of the season, redshirt freshman walk-on King Miller stepped up and emerged as an unexpected star in the second half of the year.

Overall, the Trojans ran the ball well in 11 of their 13 games, but really struggled to do so against the two toughest defensive lines that they faced: Notre Dame and Oregon. Hence, the unit gets a B+.

Offensive line: B+

USC’s offensive line was perhaps the unit that improved the most in 2026. Under new position coach Zach Hanson, the Trojans saw a significant increase in production from 2024.

Like the running backs, this unit gets knocked down to a B+ for the poor performances against Notre Dame and Oregon. Overall, though, there was a lot to like about what we saw from USC’s offensive line this season. With all five starters returning next season, expectations for the position group should be high heading into 2026.

Tight ends: A-

For years, we had been hearing about how USC planned to utilize its tight ends more. In 2025, it finally happened!

Lake McRee’s 30 catches for 450 yards and four touchdowns did not win him the Mackey Award. However, it was the most productive season by a USC tight end in nearly two decades, with backup Walker Lyons also having a solid season. It was a great coaching job by new tight ends coach Chad Savage, who certainly earned the promotion that he recently received.

Overall offensive grade: A-

Overall, USC’s offense gets an A- for the 2025 season. It was certainly not the best unit of Lincoln Riley’s coaching career (which has produced some of the top college football offenses in recent memory), but still a very good one. The Trojans scored at least 24 points in all 13 games, and the unit gave them at least a decent chance to win each contest.

Come back tomorrow for the defensive report card! (I am not expecting the grades to be nearly as positive, but we shall see.)

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Final USC football 2025 report card for the offense

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