Strip sacks: the sackers and the sacked 1994-2021

Last month I did a study looking at the propensity of quarterbacks to fumble based on two things, hand size and how often they run. However, I was not able to separate fumbles on runs from fumbles on sacks. This study will correct that; in it we will look at data from 1994 onward to see

The defenders who have mastered the strip sack

The quarterbacks who are prone to fumbling when sacked

The quarterbacks who mostly fumble when running

The quarterbacks who take a lot of sacks, but don’t fumble when being sacked

According to a study that I was reading, from 2009-2015, 5.1 percent of all sacks resulted in a turnover (strip sack recovered by the defense). This number sounded low to me, because…