With the 2020 NFL regular season in question and no rookie minicamps or OTAs to report, analysts around the league are diving more into the statistics of football.
USA TODAY’s Touchdown Wire editor Doug Farrar recently took a stab at assigning which quarterbacks are the best for each type of throw. Farrar believes Seahawks’s signal-caller Russell Wilson is the man for the seven-step drop.
“As the NFL has transitioned to more of a quick passing game by default, the seven-step drop is almost a thing of the past,” Farrar writes. “Jared Goff was the only quarterback in 2019 with more than 50 attempts on seven-step drops (68), but it was Wilson, Goff’s NFC West rival, who proved most effective on those longer dropbacks with a 157.6 passer rating.”
“Wilson completed 23 of 30 passes for 450 yards, five touchdowns, and no interceptions,” Farrar continues. “He also took sacks on 16.7% of his dropbacks, which is the nature of the beast. Interestingly enough, Wilson also dominated on zero-step and one-step drops, with 11 touchdowns and just one interception.”
