PISCATAWAY – For the third straight game, Rutgers football will face a quarterback adept at making plays with his legs.

And this week’s challenge will be the toughest yet for the Scarlet Knights.

Rutgers will play Virginia Tech on Saturday at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia (ACC Network, 3:30 p.m.) looking to win its third straight game. But to make that happen, the Scarlet Knights are going to have to keep Hokies quarterback Kyron Drones in check.

Their pass rush will need to be on point.

"I kind of group (the pass rush) together with last season, which wasn't good enough, and then this season is slightly improved," coach Greg Schiano said Monday. "But we have to make substantial improvement, and this week we are going to get the maximum test."

The 6-foot-2, 234-pound Drones so far this season (Virginia Tech is 2-1) is 51-of-80 passing (63.7 percent) for 628 yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions.

Drones has also rushed 43 times for 149 yards and two scores.

“He is electric,” Schiano said. “He can create things. There's one play where the ball is on the ground and next thing you know, it's a huge gain. He scoops it up, scrambles, throws it downfield. When you have that kind of speed and you have that kind of athleticism, you've really got to be on point. Otherwise, you make one misstep, and it's a touchdown.”

Drones in 13 games last season (11 starts) rushed for 818 yards on 166 carries (4.9 yards per attempt) with five touchdowns.

He rushed for 74 yards on 22 carries in Virginia Tech’s 35-16 loss to Rutgers last season at SHI Stadium.

“He is really big, athletic, strong arm,” Schiano said. “He can create, can throw from the pocket, can run the ball. We saw him a little last year, and I think from our game on, I guess we knocked out the quarterback and he came in, and their ascension as a program as a team kind of coincided with his development.”

In Rutgers’ season opener against Howard, Bison QB Ja’Shawn Scroggins rushed for 67 yards on nine carries. Then against Akron, dual-threat signal-caller Tahj Bullock only rushed four times for 29 yards.

Containing Drones is going be crucial on Saturday.

A big part of that will be having an improved and disciplined pass rush.

The Scarlet Knights have three sacks in two games (one each by Eric Rogers, Malcolm Ray and Jordan Walker). They’ve gotten to the quarterback but at times weren’t able to finish the play.

“Our understanding of the outside cage rush has got to improve,” defensive coordinator Joe Harasymiak said last week. “Getting to the level of the quarterback was our biggest issue (against Akron). So understanding the pressure – kind of the analogy I use is a tube of toothpaste. If you don’t put the cap back on, it’s going to come out. We’ve got to put a cap on the rushes. I think that’s what you saw on Saturday. A lot of our edge rushers did not do a good job of that. So we’ve got to improve on that.”

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Rutgers football: Virginia Tech QB Kyron Drones presents tough test