It shouldn’t surprise anyone if I tell you that Mason Rudolph wasn’t a good NFL quarterback in 2019. The young man was clearly not prepared to lead an NFL offense in his second season, and opposing defenses took advantage. Few things show those struggles as well as Football Outsiders’ comparison of quarterback DVOA with and without pressure.
Mason Rudolph took an average of 2.8 seconds to throw the football, which ranks him a bit below the middle among NFL quarterbacks. It was a pretty steep increase from Ben Roethlisberger’s 2.55 seconds in 2018, lied with Derek Carr for the fastest in the NFL.