Rosenthal - QB Index

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(01-06-2022, 12:52 PM)Chip Smallwood Wrote: I'm ok with them adding in the rushing stats, but if they're going to do that, then why is Josh Allen on the outside looking in? He has 700 rush yards vs. Lamar's 767, and 6 rushing TDs vs. Lamar's 2, and his passing stats are astronomically better.

It's really not that I have a problem with Lamar Jackson, he's just not as deserving as the 4 big great - elite QBs in the conference this year. 

As we all know, it's also fan base popularity.
Baltimore is a bigger market than Buffalo.

Another is you have to remember where they were at the time of voting.
Jackson has played in 4 fewer games than Allen.
If we just take away the past 3 games of Allen plus week 11 (the games that Jackson hasn't played), here are Allen's stats.

7-5 record
3315 passing yards
22 passing TDs
513 rushing yards
4 rushing TDs

Compare that to Jackson:
7-5 record
2882 passing yards
16 pass TDs
767 rush yards
2 rush TDs

The difference is just +179 total yards but +8 TDs.
Allen and Jackson both have about the same completion percentage on the season, so there's not that much difference there.

Allen probably should have gotten in over Jackson, but given they were relatively close by comparison at the time, I think the popularity won out.