Not exact matches
Key stat No. 3: In six appearances, Texas
quarterback Tyrone Swoopes has produced a
rating of better
than 130.0 just once: 138.4 against UCLA.
The fifth - year
quarterback is completing less
than 50 percent of his passes this season and has just a 59.3
rating for the season through three games.
In the
ratings I saw they were
rated lower
than most
quarterbacks.»
Cassel threw more picks against the Giants
than Weeden did in four appearances this season, and Weeden also threw for two scores, completed 72.4 percent of his passes and posted a 92.2
quarterback rating.
The Vols had worse
quarterback play in 2017
than any SEC team except Florida, and they finished 110th nationally in team passer
rating, third worst in their league.
Interestingly, across a variety of sports, factors and statistics related to hard work and consistency are more closely related to winning championships
than glitzy statistics such as
quarterback rating and homeruns.
Since the highest four - year pro success
rate from any QB in this sample is 46.1 percent (from both Cousins and, thus far, Dak Prescott), and since 35 of 38
quarterbacks in our draft sample were at least three percentage points lower in the NFL
than in college (most were much further away
than that), let's set an artificial bar at 49.1 percent.
Defenses are also getting after the passer much better
than last year, sacking
quarterbacks on 6.5 percent of dropbacks (up from 5.8 percent); that's the second - highest sack
rate since 2006.
Since Geno Smith entered the league in 2013, only one
quarterback has a worse passer
rating (minimum of 16 games started)
than the Giants new starter.
He was targeted 84 times this season and his passer
rating allowed was eight points lower
than if the opposing
quarterbacks had just thrown the ball at the dirt 84 times instead.