Yeah, I can't make heads or tails of that top 10. My first thought was Peyton was taking advantage of respect to the threat of McGahee/Moreno, but I checked and he's 6.8 YPA out of Play Action. So now I'm wondering if he's really back to form or if he has one of his best supporting casts. I can't compare though because PFF only started recording Play Action splits this year.

And Drew Brees is 15th on that list at +1.2.

can't even begin to explain that... Peyton/Tannehill/Luck/Bradford/Newton don't have particularly spectacular rushing attacks in either pure volume of attempts or effectiveness with those attempts. Cassel/Fitz aren't surprising at all, and Rodgers is so good that he'll take advantage over the slightest edge over the defense. maybe that's the only reason Peyton's up there too?

how does Drew Brees compare with play action? iirc they were very effective out of play action last season when they could actually run the ball, but considering they've been a terrible rushing team this season I'd imagine his YPA is hardly improved from non-play action to play action.

Yeah, after those three is Cam Newton and Matt Schaub at 4 and 5 (Surprising no one), and then at 6 and 7 is Peyton and Brady, which is interesting.

Even more interesting to me is the top 5 QB's in improving their YPA from non-play action to play action.

RGIII +6.8
Ryan Tannehill +4.5
Cam Newton +4.4
Peyton Manning +4.0
Andrew Luck +4.0

(Next 5 are Cassel, Bradford, Rodgers, Fitzpatrick, Sanchez). Odd company for Greater Manning in mine eyes.

those are exactly the three guys I'd expect to be up there too

damn though, I'm surprised that RGIII is THAT far ahead of everyone else though.


thanks

You asked by how much RGIII led the league in using the play action. At 38.1% RGIII leads Russel Wilson in second at 34.4, and Christian Ponder in 3rd at 29.9. The League Average is 19.3 with a standard deviation of 6.6.

Alternatively, RGIII is a statistical outlier in using the play action, with the threshold at 36.175.

SO THAT'S FUN.

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