47% completion rate, one touchdown, two third-down conversions, 13 points on the board.
With those numbers, Zach Wilson clearly stunk up MetLife Stadium against the Giants, right?
Not so fast.
As always, it’s foolish to rely entirely on the numbers to evaluate a player’s performance. Watching the film is essential to see what really happened on each play to cause the result that ends up in the stat sheet.
Yes, Wilson’s statistical production was terrible against the Giants. But a quarterback’s personal stat line is actually a reflection of the offense’s performance as a whole, not just his own performance.