08-23-2022, 10:53 AM
(08-23-2022, 01:58 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Yards per attempt is dependent on completion percentage. You can attempt a lot of deep passes but if you don't complete a high percentage you will have a low average per attempt.
What you should really look at is yards per completion. In 2020 Allen actually had a higher average per completion (10.3) than Burrow (10.2).
Allen's career average per completion is 10.9 which is not far off of Burrow's 11.6.
The best metric to use for this debate is average air yards per attempt. It doesn't account for whether it is caught or not, it is just the yards traveled on the pass. Brandon Allen averages 6.8 air yards per attempt. For reference, Burrow averages 8.1 air yards per attempt. Since 2019, Allen ranks 65th out of 72 qualified QBs in this metric.
An important note is that this isn't proof that Allen is bad. There are QBs down here around Allen that are decent/good QBs, such as Brees, Jimmy G., and Herbert. So, long story short is that Allen doesn't push the ball down the field as much, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing by itself.
