Raptorman wrote:So, I have been told that Russell Wilson is not an elite QB or does not deserve the contract he received due to the fact that at least 5 other QB's "are undisputedly statistically superior" to him. So I just had to check on this since he sounded so absolute. This is what I came up with. I took the top 20 QB's in the league for the last 3 years. Now, this information came from NFL.com stats. I sorted the players, added up their numbers, calculated their QB rating. Now, I am only showing the top 10 in QB rating. The lower 10 just are not even close. So somewhere in this list are 5 QB's that are " are undisputedly statistically superior" to Russell Wilson. Only problem is, I don't know which 5.
I would like to point out that Wilson has the same rate as Romo, however, Wilson's Yards per attempt and TD percentage is higher while his Interception percentage is lower.BTW, if you take the number of attempts and average them out for these 10 your get 1626. If Wilson had attempted that many passes with his current percentages his numbers would look like this.Code: Select all
Comp Attmpt % PAPG Yards YPA TD TD % INT INT% Rate Aaron Rodgers 905 1362 66.4% 33.1 11,212 8.2 94 6.9% 19 1.4% 108.9 Peyton Manning 1245 1839 67.7% 38.3 14,863 8.1 131 7.1% 36 2.0% 107.7 Ben Roeth. 1067 1641 65.0% 36.3 12,478 7.6 86 5.2% 31 1.9% 100.1 Drew Brees 1324 1979 66.9% 41.2 15,291 7.7 115 5.8% 48 2.4% 99.2 Russell Wilson 794 1252 63.4% 26.1 9,950 7.9 72 5.8% 26 2.1% 98.6 Tony Romo 1071 1618 66.2% 35.1 12,436 7.7 93 5.7% 38 2.3% 98.6 Philip Rivers 1095 1641 66.7% 34.2 12,370 7.5 89 5.4% 44 2.7% 96.0 Tom Brady 1154 1847 62.5% 38.5 13,279 7.2 92 5.0% 28 1.5% 94.4 Matt Ryan 1276 1894 67.4% 39.4 13,928 7.4 86 4.5% 45 2.4% 94.1 Alex Smith 764 1190 64.2% 28.9 8,315 7.0 54 4.5% 18 1.5% 93.5
Comp 1031, Attp 1626 12,848 yards, 94 TD's and 34 interceptions.
But then his team is loaded with offensive weapons. Lynch, who is good, a 5th round TE 2013 draft, a 2nd round WR from the 2014 draft and 2 un-drafted free agent WR's, Baldwin and Kearse. But he does have that number 1 defense. And we all know a top defense make a QB better.
Now, I also want to discuss the fact that several QB's have contracts coming up that I have been told will not come close to Wilson's. Eli Manning(age 34) Philip Rivers(age 33), Sam Bradford (age 27) and Drew Brees (age 36) all have contracts coming due in 2016 or 2017. Now, Brees might just retire. His is due in 2017 and he will be 38. But the other, well I am sure they will all see a contract that is at least equivalent or higher than Wilson's. If Bradford plays as well as the Eagles think he can he will easily make $100 on his next contract. And Rivers and E. Manning? I would say their teams wrap them up for the next 4-5 years for $90 million to $110.
All good reasons why Wilson is good, and yet, he is still not elite. 20-7 td int ratio is not elite, neither is 26-10 with under 4000 yards both times. Can you imagine the backlash against Rodgers or Manning if they put up numbers like that? Then why should Wilson be paid like them? He shouldnt, yet he is. Good is Good, Elite is Elite.
Ok again with the contracts, what makes you think Bradford and 3 35+ year olds are going to earn second highest payed QB money contracts? Really.