Pop the champagne and unfurl the banners, because 2017 saw play-action come roaring back with a vengeance!
… What, I'm the only one who celebrates Play-Action Day? You guys are missing out.
Over the past decade, play-action passing peaked from 2012 to 2014, in what historians will surely call the Read Option Era. Teams averaged play-action on 21 percent of their passing plays in those years, as the Colin Kaepernicks and Robert Griffins roamed the Earth. That rise was created almost solely by what we called the "Big Six" -- Washington, Seattle, Philadelphia, Carolina, Minnesota and San Francisco.