A few days ago we asked the question, "Who is Jalen Hurts?". In that piece I briefly mentioned a metric that I called "comeback success rate" that attempted to compare the number of times a QB had led his team to a 4th quarter comeback (or had led his team on a game winning drive) to the number of opportunities that this player had to do this. This was done by adding the number of comebacks attributed to the QB to the number of losses to estimate how often the player was trai

It's that time of year again! Are you a true football nerd? Do the tiny yet vital details of the sport fascinate you? If so, then this piece is for you! A couple years ago I developed a bulletproof and ingenious methodology to rank all the active long snappers in the NFL (credit where credit is due, I was inspired and built the system on the shoulders of this guy). For this analysis, I only included active long snappers who have appeared in an NFL game (this is why you'll not

We've seen the headlines by now: "ESPN experts rank Jalen Hurts 17th"; "Hurts falls again in annual QB Tiers rankings", so forth and so on. The league's thinking on Jalen seems to have settled on an almost insulting "middle of the road, probably not even average" consensus that I just don't understand and will unpack. First off, just how is Jalen viewed? There have been three major consensus rankings that I've looked at this summer (the now-famous ESPN ranking of journalists,