Has Tee Higgins "checked out"?

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(09-26-2023, 07:19 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Yards and TDs are often circumstantial, the one constant stat is catch percentage rate.  Just like QBs are judged by completion percentage, WRs are also measured by catch percentage. Yards/Att applies more fairly to RBs, KR and PR.

I would largely agree with you, but with the important caveat that Intended Air Yards/Attempt and Depth of Target are included with the Completion % and Catch % rather than just trying to look at them on their own.

If you are only attempting 6.5 air yards per attempt, 70% completion is less impressive than if you had 68% completion but were averaging 8.0 air yards per attempt.

Shorter passes are easier. That's why Burrow in 2021 was so damn impressive with 70.4% Completion and 8.1 Intended Air Yards per Attempt and then in 2022 went down to 68.3% and 6.8. It's also why Tua is absolutely unreal this year with 71.3% and 9.1 intended air yards per pass attempt.

Same thing on the pass catcher side. In 2021 you have Sample at 73.3% catch rate, Boyd at 71.3% catch rate, and Chase at 63.3% catch rate. But if you look closer you see Sample had an average depth of target of 2.3, Boyd at 7.7, and Chase at 12.6, which gives a whole new context to the numbers.

It's also why while I do agree Yards Per Carry is much much better than yards or TDs for judging RBs, it's also good to see Yards After Contact for RBs because some guys are just being blocked for big open runs.