Since week 1, there have been a lot of comments about Philip Rivers not being able to throw far anymore. I track and publish passing depth numbers weekly, so I am already pretty familiar with the data, but I did a deeper dive to hopefully answer some questions that may not have been addressed in my previous articles.
AVERAGES
Before looking specifically at Rivers’ numbers, I first need to have a benchmark to compare his performance against. From the first 8 weeks of 2020, I took all QBs that have had at least 100 attempts (less QB spikes).