Quote:The "other" benchmark that has been used for QBs is 7 YPA, though even this might need to be adjusted. Regardless, this is a benchmark where Blake does very poorly. He's improved from his rookie season, but it's still not there. I think it is telling that despite being top 10 in yards, yards per completion, TDs, and just outside of top 10 in yards/game...his YPA is near the bottom of the QBs this season.

This season in particular, I think it's important to mostly look at numbers that are averages per-game.


Rank positioning for total yards, TDs, INTs are going to be skewed higher when compared to the rest of the league.


Meaning: A quite large number of QBs this season have not played all their teams games. In fact, a good few number of QBs have missed half or more of the season.


Significant amount of time missed:

Romo

Luck

Roethlisberger

Kaepernick (lol)

Josh McCown

Hoyer


At least 1 game or more missed:

Peyton Manning

Tyrod Taylor

Drew Brees

Cutler

Flacco (will end up missing 6 games)

Bradford (will end up missing a few)

Foles

Mariota


3 qtrs of a game missed:

Carr

Fitzpatrick


Idk if I'm forgetting anyone. But, a significant amount of starting QBs have lost a chance for passing numbers due to injury. Almost 1/3 of the league's QBs will have much lower numbers.


Personally, I'll take overall rankings with a grain of salt. However, I may still compare overall rankings to players that have played the whole season.


Otherwise, Yards/game, YPA, Completion %, 3rd down conversion rates, etc. will be the types of things that still look very important.


That said, the Jags are in good shape at QB. He needs to get better at some things, but I expect he will.

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