Officially, the NFL's interception leaders last year played for Denver and Philadelphia, but one of those quarterbacks was largely a victim of bad luck. Other unlucky quarterbacks played in Seattle and Minnesota, while the football gods smiled on quarterbacks in Pittsburgh, Arizona, and Miami.
Today we are going to discuss adjusted interceptions. Unlike the NFL's raw interception totals, these numbers account for plays when a defender drops a pass that he should have caught, or when a wide receiver makes a big play to turn what should have been a turnover into an incompletion instead. On the other hand, sometimes quarterbacks are charged with interceptions that aren't really their fault—passes that bounce off a receiver's hands and straight to a defender—or interceptions that don't matter, like Hail Mary passes.