The quality of a team’s pass-catchers is often referred to as an excuse for a quarterback’s lack of production or development. If a quarterback struggles and does not have a wide receiver duo akin to the 2015 New York Jets, or a skill position crew as explosive as the modern-day Kansas City Chiefs, many observers will give him a pass due to the lack of talent he has at his disposal on the outside.
One statistic that gives us a solid approximation of how much a quarterback is being hindered by his teammates is his dropped-pass rate: the percentage of his pass attempts that are dropped by the intended target.