Continuing the series, learning about new Pittsburgh Steelers OC Arthur Smith, I wanted to dive deeper into an important aspect of successful offenses – explosive plays. In a recent article, I examined explosive and negative play rates for Smith and the Steelers. Of those teams, Smith had the only above the mean results since 2019 as OC in Tennessee (2019-2020).
With that quantity context outlining, today I wanted to look at and provide data on how explosive plays impacted touchdown drives. In other words, what percentage of explosive plays resulted in a touchdown drive (explosive play touchdown drive rate).