The folks at Pro Football Reference (PFR) do a terrific job compiling statistics that a football nerd like me can pour over while searching for information. Their numbers range from the broad, such as yearly stats, to the very specific, such as air-yards-per-attempt for a quarterback or average-depth-of-target for a receiver.
Over the past few days, I’ve been using the site to try to get a better feel for Ben Roethlisberger’s 2020 season. Most of us know the general narrative by now — Roethlisberger returned from elbow surgery to emerge as an MVP candidate while piloting the Steelers to an 11-0 start.