Player Bias

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(08-09-2019, 02:14 PM)Whatever Wrote: He ran a lot of short routes in the red zone and was highly effective.  You still haven't been able to explain how he can be running similar routes between the 20's as the redzone, but the #'s are so disparate.

I obviously don't have something like this for every game, but Joe Goodberry provided a consolidated video of every John Ross target in the Saints game last year.
https://twitter.com/JoeGoodberry/status/1061846665114591232

Outside of the Red Zone, John Ross was only thrown to one time less than 15 yards down the field, and that pass was batted at the LOS.
He caught the Red Zone target in the back of the end zone for a TD.
He caught another beautiful pass along the sideline that was a deep pass.
Dalton had one deep pass underthrown to Ross that was intercepted by the safety. If he had hit Ross in stride, it would have been in the end zone.
Another deep pass would have actually hit Ross in stride in the end zone but was broken up by Eli Apple.
The only remaining pass targeted to Ross was a deeper crosser where Ross was about 15 yards downfield and it was thrown too far out of reach for Ross to get a hand on.

So yes, Ross was primarily sent on deep routes outside of the red zone.