In front of the paywall at sisdatahub.com there is a treasure trove of data available about QB play that I have not been able to find for free anywhere else. It used to be available for free from footballoutsiders.com, but it is no longer. That data is tabulated by throw distance and direction data for every starting QB in the league, but I am going to focus this on distance, not distance AND direction.
Let’s start with the trends and then we will look at the entire group of 36 starting QBs breaking down throw proficiency by distance.