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(01-04-2022, 11:36 AM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: It really is super rare for a QB to be the leader in both completion % and YPA (Burrow is way higher than anyone else at 8.9).
Those two things don’t often go together.
Actually "yards per attempt" is a direct function of completion percentage. The higher your completion percentage the higher your yards per attempt.
"Yards per completion" really measures how much a QB is throwing downfield. So it would be much more rare for high completion percentage to go with "yards per completion".
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To put things in perspective. If he stayed at his rate but threw the ball as much as Justin Herbert, he would have over 5400 yards right now. Now I get, there would be a chance his YPA would go down, but given the last 2 weeks, maybe not. He averaged over 11 yards per attempt Sunday.