Sustaining drives is obviously vital to a successful offense. Today, I wanted to evaluate unsuccessful ones, looking at three-and-outs for new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Justin Fields in the 2023 season.
Let’s jump right in. Here is a visual of total plays on three-and-out drives (bar), first down success (white square = six yards or >= 40 percent of the needed yardage), second down success (gray square = six yards or >= 50 percent of the needed yardage), and total successful plays (dot):
Lots of great info here. The first thing that jumps out is Russell Wilson lands toward the bottom of the visual with the fifth-most three-and-out plays in 2023 (97).