Quote:Some fun numbers from EJ's rookie season...

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From the numbers, it's completely understandable why you would NOT want to throw with EJ on first down.

Positives

• Graded well on 2nd-and-short (<span style="color:rgb(0,128,0);">+2.8) and 3rd-and-short (+2.3).

• Posted positive grade on designed rollouts (+0.6).

• Graded at +0.3 on drop-backs of at least nine yards.

• Showed well on passes to the slot (by alignment) at +3.1 and graded at +2.0 on throws to inline tight ends.

• Best routes were crossing routes (+1.5), corner routes (+1.7), and post routes (+2.4).</span>
Negatives

• Graded at <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">-9.4 on second down, including -10.7 on 2nd-and-long

• Struggled on passes thrown at least 20 yards in the air (-9.1).

• Graded at -8.2 on passes thrown outside the numbers to the right.

• One of the league’s lowest grades in a clean pocket (-5.1).

• Graded at -8.9 on 4-to-6-yard drop-backs and -7.1 on 7-to-8-yard drop-backs.

• Struggled on passes to outside receivers (-12.3).

• Second-lowest grade on go routes at -7.7.</span>
Tendencies

• Above the league average in designed rollouts (5.6%) and plays that broke out of the pocket (7.5%).

• 54% of passes were thrown in the 1-to-10-yard range; fourth-highest in the league.

• Threw only 16.8% of passes in the 11-to-20-yard range; second-lowest in the league.

• Faced pressure only 32% of the time; seventh-lowest in the league.

• Was blitzed only 24.0% of the time; second-lowest in the league.

• 58.8% of drop-backs were in the 7-to-8-yard drop-back range; seventh-highest in the league.

• Used play action 17.0% of the time; below the league average of 21.0%.

• Threw only 58.4% of passes to wide receivers (by alignment), well below the league average of 72.4%.

• Threw only 32.6% of passes to outside wide receivers (league average: 40.2%).

• 17.9% of attempts went to running backs on non-screens, second-highest in the league.

• Threw screens on only 6.5% of drop-backs. Was above the league average with 5.2% of attempts going to running backs on screens, but only 1.4% of attempts went to wide receivers on screens, third-lowest in the league.


Call for throwing on first all you want, but it was a true horror show with him in the game.

The above stats would suggest all he was doing was checking down to his RB to get his "mighty" first down numbers.