11-02-2023, 03:05 PM
(11-02-2023, 10:39 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: Assuming you're talking about pressure-to-sack% above, it is this season. However, it is still Mahomes by a wide margin. He has the lowest pressure-to-sack % in the NFL since he came into the league. Here are the percentages and relative rankings for Burrow/Mahomes since they came into the league...
2023
Mahomes - 8.5% (1st)
Burrow - 21.3% (25th)
2022
Mahomes - 9.8% (1st)
Burrow - 22.9% (31st)
2021
Mahomes - 13.4% (5th)
Burrow - 26.9% (39th)
2020
Mahomes - 9.6% (2nd)
Burrow - 21.2% (31st)
2019
Mahomes - 11.6% (4th)
2018
Mahomes - 13.3% (4th)
Mahomes is the hardest QB in the league to sack. Burrow has had some very nice, flashy escapes like over the weekend but he isn't as consistent at escaping and keeping things alive as Mahomes is. The thing with Mahomes is he also creates pressure for himself. His playstyle allows defenses to pressure him easier, but it works because he is able to escape it so well. On the flip side of that, Burrow rarely creates pressure for himself, but still struggles to escape when pressure is put on him.
I think a lot of Burrows sack percentage on pressures has to do with his O-line. If you play behind a great offensive line like Mahomes you might have one defensive guy on any play that beats an offensive lineman so when you are escaping you just need to evade that one defender. In Burrows case where he has played behind some mediocre to bad offensive lines, many times its no just one defender that beats the O-line. Burrow often times has to evade pressure from multiple defenders. Its not the same standing behind a bad offensive line trying to evade pressure verses standing behind a good offensive line trying to evade pressure.
