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Happy Monday, everyone! John Breech is taking time off now that Tee Higgins is secure (more below), so you’ve got me, Cody Benjamin, to deliver all the latest from around the NFL, right here in the Pick Six newsletter.
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1. State of the QB position: Trends, predictions for 2024
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Quarterbacks headline the NFL, but what can their recent track record tell us about their future? Douglas Clawson identified several key signal-caller trends ahead of the 2024 season, including the increasing propensity of quarterbacks to throw shorter passes and lean more on their legs:
The youth movement (at quarterback) has come with growing pains. The league averaged 10.9 yards per completion last year, the fourth straight year it’s been the worst in a season in NFL history. The average pass continues to trickle shorter and shorter as it was 7.7 air yards per attempt in 2023, down a full yard from 2011.
On the bright side, quarterbacks are more entertaining in other regards. Signal-callers accounted for 16% of teams’ rushes in 2023, the highest rate in NFL history. There have been more 500-yard rushing seasons by quarterbacks in the last 10 years (35) than the previous 90-plus combined (31).
2. Chiefs’ Isaiah Buggs arrested for second time
It’s been a noteworthy offseason for the reigning Super Bowl champions, to say the least. The latest drama: Buggs, a reserve defensive lineman, has been arrested for the second time in as many months, charged Sunday with domestic violence and burglary by the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama. Previously detained for alleged animal cruelty…
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Author : Cody Benjamin
Publish date : 2024-06-17 17:01:12
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