Continuing the series learning about the new Pittsburgh Steelers quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, I wanted to dive deeper into an important aspect of successful offenses – third and longs (>= seven yards).
Of course, the main objective is to avoid this undesirable situation on the money down, but today’s goal is to see how the new QB room fared in the situation along with former Steeler Kenny Pickett for comparison.
Looking at third and long QB drop backs (pass attempts, sacks, and scrambles), here are conversion rates and expected points added (EPA = performance compared to expectation) for players with at least 250 total drop backs:
Right away, we see Fields had the best balance of both data points, landing above the mean in each.