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While Effective When Using It, Roethlisberger Didn’t Utilize Play-Action Much In 2017

If there’s one thing that stuck out to me while watching Super Bowl LII it was the amount of times that play action was used by both offenses. I mentioned this during the Monday podcast and come to find out, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles attempted 21 play-action passes Sunday night and that was the most ever in Super Bowl history, according to the ESPN Stats and Info Twitter account, Foles, by the way, was 12-of-21 for 118 yards and a touchdown when using play-action against the New England Patriots and he reportedly completed 72% of his play-action pass attempts during the Eagles postseason run.