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Weekly dashboard of QB stats. Thanks to the nflscrapR project and the NFL Next Gen Stats who are the timely sources of this data. Shout-out to Arrowhead Pride’s Ethan Douglas whose weekly advanced analytics articles inspired some of these reports (OK, I stole them).
Commentary will be brief but feel free to let me know in the comments that stats aren’t everything.
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HOW WELL?
Mason Rudolph has had basically 1 good game . . . against the Bengals.
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TO WHO?
Rudolph targets Diontae Johnson and JuJu Smith-Schuster almost equally.
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While Smith-Schuster has more yards, Johnson provides better situational value. Both are targeted at about the same depth.
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HOW FAR?
Rudolph’s depth of target is all over the place but on the season he is a bit above average in aDOT.
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He’s thrown 9 TDs in 5 games which is a 16-game pace of 29 and he throws them from ridiculously far away.
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HOW ACCURATE?
He is about average in terms of accuracy when accounting for depth of throws, but he has problems hitting on longer passes.
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HOW QUICK?
He holds the ball longer than average but also takes very few sacks.
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