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Is DeShone Kizer pushing the ball downfield too much?

No quarterback is airing it out as much as the Cleveland Browns’ DeShone Kizer. No, really.

Despite his rookie status, Browns head coach Hue Jackson has not hesitated from allowing his young charge to throw the deep ball. The numbers, in this case, do not lie. JJ Zachariason, the editor-in-chief at numberFire has charted Kizer with throwing 19 deep passes—in this case, those that traveled 15 or more yards in the air—on his 61 attempts, giving him a league-leading deep ball percentage of 31.15. (Zachariason provided the chart below; you can also view it on Twitter, here).