QB Index by Gregg Rosenthal

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Just for the sake of argument, and since i'm just lounging around with nothing better to do...

450 attempts a year should be the minimum for a QB to attempt per year in order to "qualify" for a career placement. That's about 28 passes a game and if you look back, it's generally the number of attempts for the 16th QB position on attempts per year since about 2002.

A QB should also have to have done this at least 5 years before you could call it a career.

(keeping in mind, this is my opinion but i think it's a pretty solid opinion)

That means a QB should not qualify for a career placement unless he has at least 2,250 attempts.

With that said, Dalton falls in 15th place, all time, since 1966 with at least 2,250 attempts. Regardless of how you spin it, that's pretty damn good.

Here's the chart for the top 30.



Obviously, the pass happy NFL of today is going to produce more current QBs at the top of the list. This isn't about "best of all time" because Dalton would fall nowhere near 15th on that list. It's more a list of where "current" (last 10 years or so) QBs stand against each other.