It's that time of year again! Are you a true football nerd? Do the tiny yet vital details of the sport fascinate you? If so, then this piece is for you! A couple years ago I developed a bulletproof and ingenious methodology to rank all the active long snappers in the NFL (credit where credit is due, I was inspired and built the system on the shoulders of this guy). For this analysis, I only included active long snappers who have appeared in an NFL game (this is why you'll not

We've seen the headlines by now: "ESPN experts rank Jalen Hurts 17th"; "Hurts falls again in annual QB Tiers rankings", so forth and so on. The league's thinking on Jalen seems to have settled on an almost insulting "middle of the road, probably not even average" consensus that I just don't understand and will unpack. First off, just how is Jalen viewed? There have been three major consensus rankings that I've looked at this summer (the now-famous ESPN ranking of journalists,

Four seasons ago, I worked up a new quarterback statistic, based on Pro Football Reference's excellent ANY/A metric, and used that statistical analysis to model how good Jalen Hurts would be for the 2022 season. This model correctly predicted an All Pro type of season from Hurts, which came to pass. Here's a link to the original post, but the following is the formula for the subsequently updated version of the statistic (I will intend to reference this somewhat often over the