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Blake Bortles Among Least Pressured Quarterbacks, Assessing the Problem

For all the sacks Blake Bortles took in 2014, we would assume that he was under pressure a lot of the time. The facts, according to Pro Football Focus, doesn’t seem to indicate that, however.

Bortles had a rough first year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, sacked 55 times in just 13 and a half games. He faced pressure on 32.5% of his drop backs, according to PFF. Still, he went down the most in the league (San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was next with 52 times sacked). Bortles faced less pressure than every other quarterback who was sacked at least 36 times with the exceptions of Jay Cutler with the Chicago Bears and Matthew Stafford with the Detroit Lions.