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Red-hot Steelers
22 Aug
, 2023
Granted the Steelers finished last year with a league-12 TD passes, 3 fewer than every other team. But I’m thinking they might double that total...
Rookie quarterbacks
21 Aug
, 2023
Expectations are deservedly modest with just players, but we usually see some of them at the controls for a chunk of the season...
Preseason stats
20 Aug
, 2023
In the case of Hall, he carried 14 times for 29 yards in August last year...
Aidan O'Connell
15 Aug
, 2023
Aidan O’Connell, a fourth-rounder out of Purdue, looked like a Brock Purdy kind of guy in his preseason debut, with the ball coming out accurately and on time and the offense moving up and down the...
C.J. Stroud
12 Aug
, 2023
We’re talking, after all, about six pass plays. He’s got plenty of time to turn things around...
Wide receivers in poor passing games
8 Aug
, 2023
Some of the highly regarded wide receivers we're relatively cool on include Michael Pittman (pictured), Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. They're No...
No. 2 pick quarterbacks
4 Aug
, 2023
The Jets gave up a mint to bring in 39-year-old Aaron Rodgers, which essentially suggests they've turned the page on Wilson...
Et tu Atwell?
31 Jul
, 2023
Picking through the numbers, I see that a number of other wide receivers have been able to get things going (at least somewhat) after lackluster starts to their careers.
Neither Adam Thielen nor W...
Rookie receivers
28 Jul
, 2023
I think it’s through some combination of them getting more pass-catching reps at the high school and college levels, along with coaches doing a better job of utilizing them. As outlined in S.C...
Three's a crowd
27 Jul
, 2023
That said, it’s going to be tough for Smith-Njigba to make a big impact right away...
High-priced wide receivers
26 Jul
, 2023
Different ways to do this, but what I went with was using spotrac.com to look at the highest-paid wide receivers in the league (based on average annual salary) and see how they fared the season aft...
Running back ages, part 2
24 Jul
, 2023
We’ve been kicking around some ideas on running backs and aging, in part because players at that position aren’t getting paid. I posted a short blurb on yards-per-carry averages and ages yesterday...
Aging running backs
23 Jul
, 2023
Shaun Alexander, Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott flopped after signing big deals...
DeAndre Hopkins
22 Jul
, 2023
The Titans have brought on Julio Jones, Robert Woods, Eric Decker and Adam Humphries with optimistic hopes in recent years, and all punched well below expectations...
Older running backs
21 Jul
, 2023
It didn't use to be that way, but now it's fair to say that 28 is the new 30...