(03-07-2018, 08:58 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote: Not trying to be that guy but:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguar...es-careers

“In the NFL, like other sports, a lasting return to play is also influenced by the player’s pre-injury position – 20% of running backs and wide receivers never return to the NFL and for those that do return, performance drops by a third. However, because their performance is less tied to lower body speed and explosiveness, 12 out of the 13 of NFL quarterbacks studied after ACL surgeries were able to resume playing at pre-injury levels.”

Interesting article but would be a lot more useful if he actually gave specifics on what he used to determine performance and also provided some examples of it.    

Its pretty vague.

In the second study of defensive players they use solo tackle numbers as evidence of performance. When in reality tackle numbers have very little correlation with performance and can vary a lot from year to year. For instance cornerbacks would be included in this study and tackle numbers have no relevance to performance for them at all.

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