The Pittsburgh Steelers reportedly re-signed punter Jordan Berry to one-year contract on Thursday and since then there’s been a lot of talk about his overall effectiveness during the 2017 season. Earlier today, Alex Kozora posted about Berry’s directional punting this past season and how that needs to be considered when measuring his overall effectiveness. In this post, I’m going to look at Berry’s overall raw punting stats from the 2017 season and attempt to show that he isn’t as bad as those numbers might indicate he is.
Below is what I wrote on Twitter Thursday not long after it was reported that Berry was re-signed.