Today I wanted to look at yet another angle of this year’s quarterback prospects, third and long performance. This situation will be defined as third and seven or longer and I will include first round picks since the 2016 college season and 2021 Pittsburgh Steelers that could return in 2022. The first graph looks at the players completion percentage as well as their catchable percentage, which excludes spikes, throwaways, and miscommunications and includes defensed accurate passes:
A healthy amount (15) of 33 players land above the mean in both data points, we see some interesting names on the top right highlighted by BYU quarterback Zach Wilson and Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on fewer attempts.