It’s pretty easy to get excited about Teddy Bridgewater. It’s the start of July, so it’s pretty easy to get excited about a number of football related things. But Bridgewater brings a special type of excitement.
He’s a young quarterback with the potential of breaking out into a star player. In the hierarchy of July NFL narratives, taking the leap is in the top tier. The league’s official website dedicates an entire offseason series about such a topic.
We’re here, though, to talk about the Minnesota Vikings quarterback specifically. Bridgewater was an analytics favorite prior to being drafted, but his rookie season metrics were rather mediocre, at least by our Net Expected Points (NEP), which measures the value of each play on the field based on how an average team would be expected to score in each scenario using historical data.