September 02, 2018 10:18AM | Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 16,078
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chunkmeister
Not every team has the luxury of the elite QB to take advantage of all the new rules (roughing, spearing, helmet-to-helmet). My guess is that if you looked at the stats of Brady, Rodgers, Ryan (who are in most peoples' "elite QB conversation"
their % of passes to WR/TE is higher than the rest of the league....and probably much higher than the QB's that play for the bottom 15 teams in the league. This would be because teams that don't have an elite QB decide to check-down to the RB more often....whereas elite QB's who are more accurate downfield are racking up more YPA......and they are worth the money in today's NFL.
To test that all you have to do is compare YPA. Which as I type I haven't done yet.
I will do Brady 2017, Ryan 2017, and Rodgers 2016.
Brady: 4th
Ryan: 8th
Rodgers: 13th
Note: what YPA doesn't account for is yards after the catch.
Anyway in 2017, the top 3 qbs in YPA were Brees, Alex Smith, and Goff.
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